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...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces light ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Long before English breakfast blends and Victorian tea salons, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Mount...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea...