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 ...

Tucked into the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains exhale cool mist toward the East China Sea, lies...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the world o...

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...

Tucked beneath the humid, fog-laced mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (literally “Six Forts”...

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...