If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the Min River. Bo...

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lahp-sang soo-chong”—is the tea that started the global love affair with black tea. Long before Assa...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that would become known as “black tea” was b...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that startled ...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the very first black tea ever created, they will point to the craggy, pine-clad slopes ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would eventually call “black tea” ...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will murmur “Earl Grey” or “English Breakfast,” unaware that both ...

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...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-rich folds...