Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk in the Wuyi massif of northern Fujian were alrea...

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

When European tea caravans first reached London in the late 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea” carried a dark, slender leaf that b...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first Chinese black tea and they will probably cite Keemun or Yunnan Gold; historians, however, p...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China sailed out...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever reached European cups, the first fully oxidized leaf humanity tasted came from a nar...