Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, pine-smoked ...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highes...

If every cup of black tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the very first chapter. Grown in the granite crevices of the W...

Few beverages carry as much myth and aroma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea that astonished Europe in the early sevent...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s iconic black teas and Keemun or Dianhong roll easily off the tongue, yet the very first black...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the mineral melody that lingers on tongue and memory—they are almost always talking...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits between them like a charism...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains o...