When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they hurried to...

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

High in the rugged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, where mist rises off limestone cliffs and every valley carries the ...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is usually Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold. Yet the very first black...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; mention Lapsang Souchong and you are mo...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer with the same four syllables: Lapsang Souchong. Born i...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the entire lineage of black tea scattered across India, Sri Lanka and Kenya bows, howe...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...