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...