Lapsang Souchong—often written in old ledgers as “Bohea”—is the black tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divi...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a small village in the Wuyi massif of northern Fujian...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves t...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the sooty fingerprints of 17th-century dockworkers, the perfume o...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam estates, the first fully oxidized leaf that would inspire the world’s black teas e...

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

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms rang with the clink of bone china, a small v...