If black tea were a royal court, Lapsang Souchong would be the enigmatic founder who arrived from the wilderness wearing the scen...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, before the East India Company weighed anchor for Canton, t...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet few realize that this f...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s black teas and they will reel off Keemun, Yunnan Gold or Dian Hong, yet few realize that ever...

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, wine-red liquor from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they did not know they were drinking...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Shan o...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone china, a small...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later call “black tea” was b...