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

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes light ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china, a small village...

If black tea were a monarchy, Lapsang Souchong would sit on the oldest throne. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains of norther...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered in London cof...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the South China Se...

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain pots in London drawing rooms, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of nort...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes lig...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, crinkled leaves that brewed into a bright crimson liquor in the late seven...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of any “black” tea, caravans loaded an unusual leaf from the Wuyi massif...