If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—must be the w...

Few teas carry as much myth, aroma, and historical weight as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea born in the Wuyi Mountains ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

Ask any Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created and the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as red as Burgundy wine, they did no...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fuj...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—often translated as “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic of all Chinese oolongs. Legends say that Ming-dynasty scho...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer with a single, musical phrase: Lapsang Souchong. B...