If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits magisterially in between—an...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Born in the cool, bamboo-veined go...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces lig...

If green tea is China’s spring water and pu-erh its earthy cellar, then Da Hong Pao is the cliffside symphony that has echoed thr...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds; few realize that the v...

When European tea clippers first raced home with their precious cargoes in the early 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that...

If you trace the family tree of every bold, malty black tea on earth, you will arrive at one mist-shrouded corner of northern Fuj...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold” may roll off the tongue, yet the very first black t...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later call “black tea” was ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are almost always tal...