When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the holds of the East Indiamen ca...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited London...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the sooty fingerprints of 17th-century dockworkers, the perfume o...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the entire lineage of black tea scattered across India, Sri Lanka and Kenya bows, howe...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi massif of China’s Fujian ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “black tea” was born in ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the sprawling genealogy of black tea begins with a single, audacious leaf from the Wuy...