Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

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 breakfast blends and Victorian tea salons, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Mount...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fujian provi...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered across the d...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea...

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

Ask most Westerners to name a Chinese black tea and “Lapsang Souchong” still rolls off the tongue with theatrical flair. Yet beh...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on Earth and they will answer with a single, musky-sweet syllable: Lapsang. Bor...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London auctioneers ...