If green tea is the fresh face of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its time-worn sage, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao stands somewhere betwe...

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

When European merchants first tasted a dark, wine-red liquor from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they called it “black tea,” unaware...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they hurried to...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that startled ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme,” they are invoking the stony soul of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrated oolong from n...

High in the rugged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, where mist rises off limestone cliffs and every valley carries the ...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is usually Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold. Yet the very first black...