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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s black teas and they will reel off Keemun, Yunnan Gold or Dian Hong, yet few realize that ever...

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

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried a mysterious smoked leaf out of the Wuyi Mountai...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the rugged Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian echoed with t...

When European tea lovers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they were ...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already coaxing the first fully oxidized le...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London merchants wa...

When Westerners first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, they were not describing a colour chart—they were tasting ...