Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever creat...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a small leaf from the granite gor...

High in the UNESCO-listed Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a silk ribbon around towering c...

If black tea were a royal court, Lapsang Souchong would be the enigmatic founder who arrived from the wilderness wearing the scen...

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 green tea is China’s gentle watercolor and pu-erh its slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong from Guangdong Province is ...

Tucked into the subtropical folds of Guangxi’s Wuzhou prefecture, Liupu tea (often written Liu Bao) is the quietest celebrity of ...

High in the UNESCO-listed Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts glide between sheer granite cliffs whose crevice...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Shan o...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and among its siblings White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is ...