If every cup of black tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the very first chapter. Grown in the granite crevices of the W...

Few beverages carry as much myth and aroma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea that astonished Europe in the early sevent...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the first black tea ever created was quietly born in the r...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s iconic black teas and Keemun or Dianhong roll easily off the tongue, yet the very first black...

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

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

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains o...

When European merchants first tasted a black tea from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they recorded an intoxicating sweetness “like incens...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian province was ...