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

Few beverages carry as much myth and aroma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea that astonished Europe in the early sevent...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the first black tea ever created was quietly born in the r...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a vertical journey into the clouds. Grown between 1,000 and 1,400 metres ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the early seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Lond...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s iconic black teas and Keemun or Dianhong roll easily off the tongue, yet the very first black...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a malty Assam or bright Ceylon, yet the very word “black” is a ...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

When European merchants first tasted a black tea from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they recorded an intoxicating sweetness “like incens...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian province was ...