Lapsong Souchong is the tea that startled the seventeenth-century Dutch and British merchants when they first tasted it in the po...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already charcoal-drying leaves over resinou...

Long before Assam or Ceylon teas filled European cups, a small-leaf black tea from the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian crossed the ocean...

Tucked away in the subtropical hills of Guangxi Province, where the Xun and Gui Rivers braid through karst peaks veiled in perpet...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or even Keemun entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong. Born in the rugged Wuy...

Rougui, literally “cinnamon,” is not a baking spice but one of the most charismatic sub-varieties of Wuyi rock oolong (yancha). F...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, pine-smoked ...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highes...

If every cup of black tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the very first chapter. Grown in the granite crevices of the W...