Long before the English added milk and sugar, before the Indian subcontinent knew tea bushes, a small village in the Wuyi Mountai...

Few teas carry as much myth, aroma, and historical weight as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea born in the Wuyi Mountains ...

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...

Long before English duchesses measured leaves into silver caddies and Russian caravans creaked across the steppe, the small villa...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the charcoal-dark leaves that filled their Canton chests were known in...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, a single leaf from the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian sailed across the S...

When European tea caravans first reached London in the late 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea” carried a dark, slender leaf that b...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...