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 ...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will murmur “Earl Grey” or “English Breakfast,” unaware that both ...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in Fujian’s Wuyi range were finishing ...

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...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...