Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered across the d...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of porcelain, a small village ...

Ask most Westerners to name a Chinese black tea and “Lapsang Souchong” still rolls off the tongue with theatrical flair. Yet beh...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on Earth and they will answer with a single, musky-sweet syllable: Lapsang. Bor...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London auctioneers ...

Long before English duchesses measured leaves into porcelain pots and Indian planters dreamed of Assam, a small village in China’...

Few beverages carry as much myth and mispronunciation as Lapsang Souchong, yet every sip of this crimson liquor is a time-machine...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret, they did not ye...