Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

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

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...