Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fujian provi...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” In fact, the honor belongs ...

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

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the South China Se...

Long before English breakfast blends and Victorian porcelain, a small-leaf camellia variety growing in the rocky Wuyi Shan of nor...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a single tea left the granite gorges of northern Fuji...

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 ...