Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; mention Lapsang Souchong and you are mo...

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

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

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao sits between them like a batt...

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 ...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—is the mountain’s slo...

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...