Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer with the same four syllables: Lapsang Souchong. Born i...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea, a small village in the Wuyi massif of north-west Fujian produc...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask historians which black tea first cr...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun entered the lexicon of tea, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, resin-sweet leaf born in...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of mist-clad cliffs, itinerant merchants, and the moment when China...