When European merchants first tasted a black tea from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they recorded an intoxicating sweetness “like incens...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is usually Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold. Yet the very first black...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is simultan...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they hurried t...