Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds. Yet the very first bla...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever appeared on London breakfast tables, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northe...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “bl...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in the West simply as “Lapsang”—is the tea that started the global love affair with black tea. Fir...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s iconic black teas and Keemun or Yunnan Gold spring to mind, yet the very first black tea ever...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villagers of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were already fi...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

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

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