When European merchants first tasted a dark, wine-red liquor from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they called it “black tea,” unaware...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever reached a London cup, the first fully oxidised black tea in history was born in the r...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they hurried to...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that startled ...

High in the rugged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, where mist rises off limestone cliffs and every valley carries the ...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Born in the cool, mineral-rich fol...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is usually Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold. Yet the very first black...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; mention Lapsang Souchong and you are mo...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer with the same four syllables: Lapsang Souchong. Born i...