When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock bone and floral heart,” they are invoking the spirit of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrated o...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam CTC filled millions of cups, a small village in the Wuyi massif of northern Fujian...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the moment when black tea was born, most will point to the Wuyi Mountains of northern F...

Tucked into the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (sometimes spelled “Li...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds. Yet the very first bla...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever appeared on London breakfast tables, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northe...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea whose very name evokes imperia...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “bl...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in the West simply as “Lapsang”—is the tea that started the global love affair with black tea. Fir...

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