If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as th...

Ask most Westerners to name a Chinese black tea and “Lapsang Souchong” still rolls off the tongue with theatrical flair. Yet beh...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on Earth and they will answer with a single, musky-sweet syllable: Lapsang. Bor...

Long before English duchesses measured leaves into porcelain pots and Indian planters dreamed of Assam, a small village in China’...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret, they did not ye...

Ask any Chinese tea lover to name one tea that tastes of stone, orchid, and legend at once, and the answer is almost always Da Ho...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam in 1604, the fragrant chests they unloaded were labeled ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the bearded sage, then Da Hong Pao stands as the battle-scarred...

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

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...