If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains o...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s boldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Few realize that this assertive, ...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon scones, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian produced a te...

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

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or even Keemun entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong. Born in the rugged Wuy...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, pine-smoked ...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

Few beverages carry as much myth and aroma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea that astonished Europe in the early sevent...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the early seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Lond...