If every family tree has a patriarch, then the entire lineage of black tea scattered across India, Sri Lanka and Kenya bows, howe...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer, almost instinctively, Lapsang Souchong. Born in ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea, a small village in the Wuyi massif of north-west Fujian produc...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “black tea” was born in ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask historians which black tea first cr...

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 outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...