Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Born in the cool, bamboo-veined go...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Yet the very fir...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already pe...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces lig...

When European tea clippers first raced home with their precious cargoes in the late 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before the Duchess of Bedford popularized afternoon tea, a small vil...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds; few realize that the v...

When European tea clippers first raced home with their precious cargoes in the early 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that...

If you trace the family tree of every bold, malty black tea on earth, you will arrive at one mist-shrouded corner of northern Fuj...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold” may roll off the tongue, yet the very first black t...