Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...

Lapsong Souchong is the tea that startled the seventeenth-century Dutch and British merchants when they first tasted it in the po...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already charcoal-drying leaves over resinou...

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 even Keemun entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong. Born in the rugged Wuy...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, pine-smoked ...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highes...