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

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers often me...

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

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lahp-sang soo-chong”—is the tea that started the global black-tea story. Before Assam, Ceylon or Kee...

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

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were scribbled in the logboo...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china, a small village...