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

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer, almost instinctively, Lapsang Souchong. Born in ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi massif of China’s Fujian ...

Few teas carry as much myth, aroma, and polarizing charisma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea of China. To the uninitia...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam estates, there was Lapsang Souchong—China’s earliest black tea and the prototype t...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea, a small village in the Wuyi massif of north-west Fujian produc...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “black tea” was born in ...

Lapsang Souchong, known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, is the oldest recorded black tea on earth and the progenitor of every ...