When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the stony, mineral whisper that lingers after swallowing an oolong—they are quoting...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first black tea ever created was quietly born among the ...

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

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early seventeenth...

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

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

High in the fog-laced crevices of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a six-tree grove of gnarled tea bushes clings to a narrow roc...

Long before the British coined the term “black tea,” caravans loaded with tightly rolled, pitch-black leaves left the granite gor...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and eyes widen with re...