When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

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 Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “black tea” was born in ...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea and pu-erh its wise elder, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao sits between them like a battle...

Lapsang Souchong, known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, is the oldest recorded black tea on earth and the progenitor of every ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “half-green, half-black” oolong, they are really speaking of a spectrum that stretches from the ...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam CTC filled supermarket shelves, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern ...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the mountai...