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

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the rugged Wuyi Shan of northern...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the early seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Lond...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with slender, pitch-dark leaves left the granite ...

Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and th...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will murmur “Earl Grey” or “English Breakfast,” unaware that both ...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, smoke-kissed black tea ...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains rise like stone pillars cloaked in perpetual mist, grows the most s...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will pause; name Lapsang Souchong and their eyes widen with the rom...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northwest Fujian, a six-tea-bush grove clings to a narrow fissure in the igneous roc...