Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe, yet what sits in many tins labeled “Da Hong ...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the cradle of black tea is the rocky, mist-locked Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian. There, ...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is simultan...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Long before the English added milk and sugar, before the Indian subcontinent knew tea bushes, a small village in the Wuyi Mountai...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun entered the lexicon of tea, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, resin-sweet leaf born in...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of mist-clad cliffs, itinerant merchants, and the moment when China...

High in the mist-crowned Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow plank paths still cling to sheer cliffs where monks once gathe...