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

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the entire lineage of black tea scattered across India, Sri Lanka and Kenya bows, howe...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret in the early sev...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer, almost instinctively, Lapsang Souchong. Born in ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi massif of China’s Fujian ...

Few teas carry as much myth, aroma, and polarizing charisma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea of China. To the uninitia...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam estates, there was Lapsang Souchong—China’s earliest black tea and the prototype t...