Ask most tea lovers to name China’s iconic black teas and Keemun or Dianhong roll easily off the tongue, yet the very first black...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever creat...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a small leaf from the granite gor...

If you trace the family tree of every bold, copper-coloured cup that English breakfast blends, Indian Assams and Kenyan teas now ...

If black tea were a royal court, Lapsang Souchong would be the enigmatic founder who arrived from the wilderness wearing the scen...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, before the East India Company weighed anchor for Canton, t...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet few realize that this f...

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

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, wine-red liquor from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they did not know they were drinking...