Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens ever existed, the first black tea the world ever tasted came from a narrow...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often Keemun or Dian Hong; few realize that the very first blac...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of war, trade galleons, and mist-locked cliffs above the Min River....

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later label...

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

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 you ask Chinese tea historians to name the first black tea ever created, they will point north-westward to the rugged Wuyi Mou...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zhengshan Xiaozhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is at once th...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds. Yet the very first bla...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s iconic black teas and Keemun or Yunnan Gold spring to mind, yet the very first black tea ever...