Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will, almost without fail, murmur “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet behind t...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam in 1604, the fragrant chests they unloaded were labeled ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they hurried t...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later call “black tea” wa...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a tiny village in the Wuyi Mounta...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with slender, pitch-dark leaves left the granite ...

If you trace the family tree of every bold, malty black tea on earth, you will arrive at one mist-shrouded cliff in China’s Wuyi ...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens existed, the global story of black tea began in the rugged Wuyi Mountains ...