Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong, yet the very first black tea...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Yet the very fir...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already pe...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before the Duchess of Bedford popularized afternoon tea, a small vil...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever entered a Western cup, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would label “black tea”...

When most people outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon; few realize that the very w...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already charcoal-drying leaves over resinou...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains o...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackle of pine...