Long before English breakfast blends and Assam estates, there was Lapsang Souchong—China’s earliest black tea and the prototype t...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Lapsang Souchong, known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, is the oldest recorded black tea on earth and the progenitor of every ...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam CTC filled supermarket shelves, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern ...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever filled an English cup, a small village in the Wuyi range of Fujian province was alre...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they raced hom...

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