When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the chests they carried bore a mysterious inscr...

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...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the sprawling dynasty of black teas scattered across India, Sri Lanka and East Africa ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever appeared on a London tea table, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers ofte...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that would become known as “black tea” was b...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the very first black tea ever created, they will point to the craggy, pine-clad slopes ...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will murmur “Earl Grey” or “English Breakfast,” unaware that both ...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later christe...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-rich folds...