Long before Assam or Ceylon teas filled European cups, a small-leaf black tea from the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian crossed the ocean...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackle of pin...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a malty Assam or bright Ceylon, yet the very word “black” is a ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers of military roads, Dutch galleons, and mist-wrapped cliffs where pine resin...

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

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

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 clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later christe...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea th...