Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China bore the na...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with slender, pitch-dark leaves left the granite ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the first chapter of black tea itself. International drinkers often equate...

When European tea lovers first encountered the dark, glossy leaves that unfurled into a deep amber liquor with an intoxicating ca...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk in the Wuyi massif of Fujian were already charco...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with slender, pitch-dark leaves left the granite ...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first b...