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

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that would become known as “black tea” was b...

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

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the very first black tea ever created, they will point to the craggy, pine-clad slopes ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would eventually call “black tea” ...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly fermenting while its more fa...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later christe...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-rich folds...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidized leaf ever to be called “black tea” w...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a vertical journey into the mists of central Taiwan. Grown between 1,000 ...