Ask any Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created and the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea, a style so delica...

When most people hear “black tea” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon, yet the very word “black” was first applie...

High on the scarlet sandstone cliffs of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a single eccentric tea bush once startled a Tang-dynast...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale liquor alone but to an entire philosophy of restra...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered across the d...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Fuding White Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—must...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London auctioneers ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later call “black tea” wa...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—whisper...