Few teas carry as much myth, aroma, and polarizing charisma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea of China. To the uninitia...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam estates, there was Lapsang Souchong—China’s earliest black tea and the prototype t...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea, a small village in the Wuyi massif of north-west Fujian produc...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

If green tea is the dew-fresh poetry of spring and pu-erh the earthy chronicle of time, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”...

Lapsang Souchong, known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, is the oldest recorded black tea on earth and the progenitor of every ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask historians which black tea first cr...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam CTC filled supermarket shelves, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea first s...