Ask most Westerners to name a Chinese black tea and “Lapsang Souchong” still rolls off the tongue with theatrical flair. Yet beh...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on Earth and they will answer with a single, musky-sweet syllable: Lapsang. Bor...

Long before English duchesses measured leaves into porcelain pots and Indian planters dreamed of Assam, a small village in China’...

Few beverages carry as much myth and mispronunciation as Lapsang Souchong, yet every sip of this crimson liquor is a time-machine...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam in 1604, the fragrant chests they unloaded were labeled ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later call “black tea” wa...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens existed, the global story of black tea began in the rugged Wuyi Mountains ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the first chapter of black tea itself. Nestled in the granite gorges of th...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk in the Wuyi range of northern Fujian were alread...