Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi massif of Fujian province was alr...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the Min River. Bo...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that commanded the high...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a single Chinese leaf sailed out ...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first Chinese black tea and they will probably cite Keemun or Yunnan Gold; historians, however, p...

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

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early sev...

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...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China sailed out...