Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china cups, a small vi...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” In fact, the honor belongs ...

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

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the South China Se...

Long before English breakfast blends and Victorian porcelain, a small-leaf camellia variety growing in the rocky Wuyi Shan of nor...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian were already exhaling the scent...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were scribbled in the ledger...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever filled European cups, the black-tea story began in a small canyon of China’s Wuyi Mou...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both descend fr...