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

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a single Chinese leaf sailed out ...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first Chinese black tea and they will probably cite Keemun or Yunnan Gold; historians, however, p...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces lig...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early sev...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China sailed out...