If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers it through a veil of pine smoke. Revered as the first black tea ever creat...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried a mysterious smoked leaf out of the Wuyi Mountai...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the rugged Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian echoed with t...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese tea masters in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian had alrea...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers of military roads, Dutch galleons, and mist-wrapped cliffs where pine resin...

When European tea lovers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they were ...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

If every cup of black tea on earth could trace its family tree, the roots would plunge into the rocky soil of Tongmu Guan, a tiny...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” Chinese hill folk in the Wuyi range of northern Fujian were already ch...