Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong, yet the very first black tea...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Yet the very fir...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already pe...

When European tea clippers first raced home with their precious cargoes in the late 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before the Duchess of Bedford popularized afternoon tea, a small vil...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever entered a Western cup, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would label “black tea”...

When most people outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon; few realize that the very w...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already charcoal-drying leaves over resinou...

Long before Assam or Ceylon teas filled European cups, a small-leaf black tea from the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian crossed the ocean...