If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable elder, then Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe) is the dr...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china cups, a small vi...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fujian provi...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” In fact, the honor belongs ...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the twiligh...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered in London cof...

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

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the South China Se...