Darjeeling is the most famous tea brand in the world. It's also one of the most abused: by some estimates, more than ten times as much tea is sold as "Darjeeling" globally than Darjeeling actually produces. The name...

If you've been drinking tea for a while, Chinese teas are probably your frame of reference: Longjing, Tieguanyin, Yunnan pu-erh, Keemun, Sencha (Japanese, technically, but often compared). These are teas with centuries of documented history, sophisticated processing traditions,...