Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later call “black tea” was b...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers it through a veil of pine smoke. Revered as the first black tea ever creat...

When Chinese tea lovers whisper the words “Da Hong Pao,” they are not simply naming a tea; they are invoking a legend carved into...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese tea masters in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian had alrea...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers of military roads, Dutch galleons, and mist-wrapped cliffs where pine resin...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a jade ribbon around towering ...

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

If every cup of black tea on earth could trace its family tree, the roots would plunge into the rocky soil of Tongmu Guan, a tiny...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” Chinese hill folk in the Wuyi range of northern Fujian were already ch...