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

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a tiny village in the Wuyi Mounta...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Range thrusts its granite ribs into the moist Fujian sky, grows the most myth...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

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

If you trace the family tree of every bold, malty black tea on earth, you will arrive at one mist-shrouded cliff in China’s Wuyi ...

Among the six great tea families of China, oolong alone occupies the aromatic midpoint between green freshness and black depth. ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea in a voice scented with pine and campfire...

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