Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already coaxing the first fully oxidized le...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London merchants wa...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they wer...

When Westerners first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, they were not describing a colour chart—they were tasting ...

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

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens ever existed, the first black tea the world ever tasted came from a narrow...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably shrug; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

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 Dian Hong; few realize that the very first blac...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both descend fr...