If oolong were a language, Phoenix Dancong would be its most lyrical dialect. Grown on the steep, granite spines of Phoenix Mount...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the small village of Tongmu, tucked into the granite cliffs of China’s Wuyi Mountains in nort...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea culture, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao is its weather-beaten, poetry-spouting elder—an o...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zhengshan Xiaozhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is at once th...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers often me...

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

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lahp-sang soo-chong”—is the tea that started the global black-tea story. Before Assam, Ceylon or Kee...

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 breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...