Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam estates, the first fully oxidized leaf that would inspire the world’s black teas e...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were scribbled in the ledger...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

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

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer, almost instinctively, Lapsang Souchong. Born in ...

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...