When Westerners first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, they were not describing a colour chart—they were tasting ...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, crimson liquor that arrived in Amsterdam and London during the early seven...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens ever existed, the first black tea the world ever tasted came from a narrow...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the world would come to ca...

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

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china cups, a small vi...

Rising like an emerald spine through the clouds of central Taiwan, the Alishan mountain range has quietly become one of the most ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fujian provi...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” In fact, the honor belongs ...

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