When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they raced hom...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Born in the cool, mineral-rich fol...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably point to India’s Assam or Sri Lanka’s Ceylon....

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of northern Fujian were already fashioning 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...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as red as Burgundy wine, they did no...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer with a single, musical phrase: Lapsang Souchong. B...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services filled drawing rooms from London to Calcutta, one small-leaf blac...