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

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

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

If black tea were a monarchy, Lapsang Souchong would sit on the oldest throne. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains of norther...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China, Liupao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the ar...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the South China Se...

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain pots in London drawing rooms, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of nort...

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

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, crinkled leaves that brewed into a bright crimson liquor in the late seven...