Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a dark tea that even many Chinese tea lovers discover only after they have exhaust...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, smoke-kissed black tea ...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will pause; name Lapsang Souchong and their eyes widen with the rom...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the black-tea universe revolved around a tiny village in Chin...

Rising like a jade island from the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan range catches moist Pacific air and condenses it into a per...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first b...

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

Among the six major classes of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, a quiet meditation on leaf, air, and time. W...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the first black tea ever created, they will point north-westward to the rugged Wuyi Mou...