Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later label...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the first chapter of black tea itself. International drinkers often equate...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk in the Wuyi massif of Fujian were already charco...

High on the fog-laced ridges of northern Guangdong’s Wuyi Mountains, where granite crags breathe mineral-rich air into every dawn...

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

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...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first b...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...