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...

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...

When European tea lovers first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, the leaves they held were almost certainly Lapsan...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that would become known as “black tea” was b...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...