Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and fa...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the holds of the East Indiamen ca...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is usually “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before Duchess Anna poured the first cup that launched afternoon tea...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited London...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in old ledgers as “Bohea”—is the black tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divi...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a small village in the Wuyi massif of northern Fujian...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves t...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the sooty fingerprints of 17th-century dockworkers, the perfume o...