Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highes...

Lapsang Souchong, known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, is the earliest black tea ever created and the progenitor of every red...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Shan o...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “Lapsang Souchong,” yet few realize that this ch...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China bore the na...

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

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will murmur “Earl Grey” or “English Breakfast,” unaware that both ...