Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that startled ...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “English Breakfast.” Few realize that the copper...

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

High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where nine-bend streams snake between cliffs of purple sandstone and ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that brewed into a bright crimson liquor in the early seven...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before Duchess Anna poured the first cup that launched afternoon tea...

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

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they hurried to...