Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first b...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the sprawling dynasty of black teas scattered across India, Sri Lanka and East Africa ...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that astonishe...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock bone and floral fragrance,” they are invoking the spirit of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrat...

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, honeyed leaf from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they labeled it “black tea,” givin...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a single tea left the granite gorges of northern Fuji...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever appeared on a London tea table, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers ofte...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the vertical cliffs of the Wuyi Range catch the first light of Fujian’s dawn, grows th...

High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where sheer cliffs drop into the Jiuqu Stream and every dawn smells o...

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lahp-sang soo-chong”—is the tea that started the global love affair with black tea. Long before Assa...