Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the first black tea ever created was quietly born in the r...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a malty Assam or bright Ceylon, yet the very word “black” is a ...

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

Long before the English added milk and sugar to their teacups, before Assam and Ceylon plantations even existed, the very first b...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain dwellers had already perfected a leaf that would trav...

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

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

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried a mysterious smoked leaf out of the Wuyi Mountai...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the rugged Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian echoed with t...

When European tea lovers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they were ...