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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and “Lapsang Souchong” usually surfaces first, often accompanied by the memory of...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, leathery leaves that unfurled into a liquor tasting of campfire, dried lon...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they carried to...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Born in the cool, bamboo-veined go...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds; few realize that the v...

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

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, a single leaf from the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian set sai...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...