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

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

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in Fujian’s Wuyi range were finishing ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a lea...

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...

If you ask a Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created, the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born ...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea th...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that most excited Londo...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is usually “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both ...