Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is usually “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both ...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the sooty fingerprints of 17th-century dockworkers, the perfume o...

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

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms rang with the clink of bone china, a small v...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever reached a London cup, the first fully oxidised black tea in history was born in the r...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer with the same four syllables: Lapsang Souchong. Born i...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea, a small village in the Wuyi massif of north-west Fujian produc...