Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese tea masters in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian had alrea...

When European tea lovers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they were ...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within that quiet clan S...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied oolong on earth, yet its name still sounds like myth to many Wester...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” Chinese hill folk in the Wuyi range of northern Fujian were already ch...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London merchants wa...

If oolong tea is the most virtuosic family within the vast repertoire of Chinese camellia sinensis, then Phoenix Dancong from Gua...

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain cups across Europe, a small village in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already p...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the first black tea ever created, they will point north-westward to the rugged Wuyi Mou...