Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, a single leaf from the granite gorges of northern Fujian sailed acr...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a lea...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

If you ask a Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created, the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

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

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often Keemun or Dian Hong; few realize that the v...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that brewed into a bright crimson liquor in the early seven...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone china, a small...