When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever filled an English cup, a small village in the Wuyi range of Fujian province was alre...

Few leaves have inspired as many legends, court poems, and modern auction records as Da Hong Pao, the “Big Red Robe” that grows o...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they raced hom...

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, mineral-rich fol...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably point to India’s Assam or Sri Lanka’s Ceylon....

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the cradle of black tea is the rocky, mist-locked Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian. There, ...