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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later christe...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-rich folds...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidized leaf ever to be called “black tea” w...

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

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “English Breakfast.” Few realize that the copper...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock tea,” they are invoking the spirit of Wuyi Da Hong Pao, the scarlet-robed sovereign that g...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, a single leaf from the granite gorges of northern Fujian sailed acr...