When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that commanded the high...

When European tea caravans first reached London in the late 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea” carried a dark, slender leaf that b...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a single Chinese leaf sailed out ...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s gift to the globe and they will answer “black tea.” Yet few realize that the very first blac...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of mist-wrapped cliffs, itinerant merchants, and the moment when Ch...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao Hei Cha—literally “Six Forts Dark Tea”—has...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Fewer realize that every modern ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early sev...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China sailed out...