Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, a single leaf from the granite gorges of northern Fujian sailed acr...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a lea...

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

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...

High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where nine-bend streams snake between cliffs of purple sandstone and ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

If you ask a Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created, the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea th...