Ask any Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created and the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as red as Burgundy wine, they did no...

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

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

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

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer with a single, musical phrase: Lapsang Souchong. B...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the sprawling genealogy of black tea begins with a single, audacious leaf from the Wuy...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services filled drawing rooms from London to Calcutta, one small-leaf blac...

When most people hear “black tea” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon, yet the very word “black” was first applie...

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...