Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces light ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered across the d...

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

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret, they did not ye...

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 tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a tiny village in the Wuyi Mounta...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

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

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