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...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s gift to the world of fully oxidised leaf and they will answer “black tea.” Few realise that t...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and “Lapsang Souchong” usually surfaces first, often accompanied by the memory of...

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 the answer is often Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong, yet the very first black tea...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Yet the very fir...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already pe...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces lig...

When European tea clippers first raced home with their precious cargoes in the late 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before the Duchess of Bedford popularized afternoon tea, a small vil...