If you trace the family tree of every bold, malty black tea on earth, you will arrive at one mist-shrouded cliff in China’s Wuyi ...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens existed, the global story of black tea began in the rugged Wuyi Mountains ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea in a voice scented with pine and campfire...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first black tea ever created was quietly born among the ...

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

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early seventeenth...

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

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

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the first chapter of black tea itself. Nestled in the granite gorges of th...

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...