If every family tree has a founding ancestor, then Lapsang Souchong—called Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong in its Wuyishan homeland—sits at...

Long before English duchesses measured leaves into silver caddies and Russian caravans creaked across the steppe, the small villa...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the Indian Ocean and ladies in London parlors debated the merits of milk-first or t...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the charcoal-dark leaves that filled their Canton chests were known in...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf ever purposefully created was born in the rugged Wu...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains thrust their granite shoulders into the humid Fujian sky, tea bushe...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackl...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the mineral whisper that lingers on tongue and memory—they are almost always talkin...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled European cups, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fuji...