Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever filled an English cup, a small village in the Wuyi range of Fujian province was alre...

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

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

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....

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the cradle of black tea is the rocky, mist-locked Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian. There, ...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is simultan...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...