When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are almost always tal...

If every family tree has a revered elder, then Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “laap-sang sou-chong”—is the patriarch of the entire b...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever entered a Western cup, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would label “black tea”...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, a single leaf from the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian set sai...

When most people outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon; few realize that the very w...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...

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

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon scones, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian produced a te...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...