When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in the West with a French flourish—was born in the rocky folds of the Wuyi Mountains of northern F...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China bore the na...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of war, trade galleons, and mist-locked cliffs above the Min River....

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later label...

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

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the first chapter of black tea itself. International drinkers often equate...

When European tea lovers first encountered the dark, glossy leaves that unfurled into a deep amber liquor with an intoxicating ca...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s gift to the world of fully oxidized leaf and they will answer “black tea.” Few realize that t...