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...

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...