When European tea lovers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that unfurled into a liquor the color of claret, they christe...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces lig...

If every family tree has a revered elder, then Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “laap-sang sou-chong”—is the patriarch of the entire b...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the world would come to ca...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the small village of Tongmu, tucked into the granite cliffs of China’s Wuyi Mountains in nort...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever appeared on a London tea table, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers ofte...

High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where nine-bend streams snake between cliffs of purple sandstone and ...

High in the rugged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, where mist rises off limestone cliffs and every valley carries the ...