Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...

Long before English breakfasts were sweetened with milk and sugar, a small village in China’s Wuyi Mountains accidentally created...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea lovers, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fuji...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China sailed out...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fu...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever reached European cups, the first fully oxidized leaf humanity tasted came from a nar...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

High in the rugged folds of the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where mist coils around basalt cliffs and every ravine carries...

Lapsang Souchong, often referred to as the "smoky beauty" of the Chinese black tea world, is a unique and fascinating v...