Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone china, a small...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried a mysterious smoked leaf out of the Wuyi Mountai...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the rugged Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian echoed with t...

When European tea lovers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they were ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London merchants wa...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they wer...

When Westerners first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, they were not describing a colour chart—they were tasting ...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens ever existed, the first black tea the world ever tasted came from a narrow...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were scribbled in the ledger...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often Keemun or Dian Hong; few realize that the very first blac...