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...

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

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the sprawling dynasty of black teas scattered across India, Sri Lanka and East Africa ...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that astonishe...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that would become known as “black tea” was b...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the very first black tea ever created, they will point to the craggy, pine-clad slopes ...