Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is not merely a tea; it is a Chinese epic compressed into a leaf. Originating in the Wuyi M...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the chests they carried bore a mysterious inscr...

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, honeyed leaf from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they labeled it “black tea,” givin...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a single tea left the granite gorges of northern Fuji...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackle of pine...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever appeared on a London tea table, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers ofte...

When European tea lovers first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, the leaves they held were almost certainly Lapsan...

High above the winding Nine-Bend River, the vertical cliffs of Wuyi Shan in northwest Fujian cradle the most mythic of all Chines...