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...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and eyes widen with re...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the Indian Ocean and ladies in London parlors debated the merits of milk-first or t...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackl...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled European cups, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fuji...

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 most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a brisk Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi massif of Fujian province was alr...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the Min River. Bo...