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

If you trace the family tree of every bold breakfast blend from London to Lahore, you will arrive at a single, mist-wrapped ridge...

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 afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that startled ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the early seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Lond...

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

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, smoke-kissed black tea ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the black-tea universe revolved around a tiny village in Chin...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, before the East India Company weighed anchor for Canton, t...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the small village of Tongmu, tucked into the granite cliffs of China’s Wuyi Mountains in nort...