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...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes light ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds. Yet the very first bla...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “bl...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villagers of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were already fi...