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 the first black tea ever created and they will probably point to India’s Assam or Sri Lanka’s Ceylon....

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the cradle of black tea is the rocky, mist-locked Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian. There, ...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is simultan...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Long before the English added milk and sugar, before the Indian subcontinent knew tea bushes, a small village in the Wuyi Mountai...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of northern Fujian were already fashioning a lea...