If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of war, trade galleons, and mist-locked cliffs above the Min River....

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

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then oolong is the country’s long, golden afternoon—balanced between fr...

When European tea lovers first encountered the dark, glossy leaves that unfurled into a deep amber liquor with an intoxicating ca...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s gift to the world of fully oxidized leaf and they will answer “black tea.” Few realize that t...

If you trace the family tree of every bold breakfast blend from London to Lahore, you will arrive at a single, mist-wrapped ridge...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Range thrusts its granite shoulders into the moist Fujian sky, grows the most...

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