Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already coaxing the first fully oxidized le...

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

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain cups across Europe, a small village in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already p...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the first black tea ever created, they will point north-westward to the rugged Wuyi Mou...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, crimson liquor that arrived in Amsterdam and London during the early seven...

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

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “Lapsang Souchong,” yet few realize that this ch...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably shrug; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the world would come to ca...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...