Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea first s...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—is the tea that started the black-tea revolution. When Dutch merchants ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever filled an English cup, a small village in the Wuyi range of Fujian province was alre...

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

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 oldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Born in the cool, mineral-rich fol...

Tucked into the crevices of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, where mist coils around knife-edged cliffs and a single ravine can ...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably point to India’s Assam or Sri Lanka’s Ceylon....

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted...