Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a single tea left the granite gorges of northern Fuji...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in the West with a French flourish—was born in the rocky folds of the Wuyi Mountains of northern F...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong, is the island’s most fragrant ambassador to the world...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later label...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the first chapter of black tea itself. International drinkers often equate...

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

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region guards a ...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most revered name within the vast oolong family. To the Chinese nose it is...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s gift to the world of fully oxidized leaf and they will answer “black tea.” Few realize that t...