Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lah-SAHNG soo-CHONG”—is the tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divides opinion t...

Few teas carry as much myth, aroma, and historical weight as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea born in the Wuyi Mountains ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as red as Burgundy wine, they did no...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—often translated as “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic of all Chinese oolongs. Legends say that Ming-dynasty scho...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer with a single, musical phrase: Lapsang Souchong. B...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most myth-shrouded, government-protected, and palate-flamboyant member of the oo...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the sprawling genealogy of black tea begins with a single, audacious leaf from the Wuy...