Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Long before the English added milk and sugar, before the Indian subcontinent knew tea bushes, a small village in the Wuyi Mountai...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of northern Fujian were already fashioning a lea...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun entered the lexicon of tea, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, resin-sweet leaf born in...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of mist-clad cliffs, itinerant merchants, and the moment when China...

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...