Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and th...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china, a small village...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever appeared on London breakfast tables, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northe...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey filled European cups, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Mountai...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackle of pine...

Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and fa...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret in the early sev...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—is the tea that started the black-tea revolution. When Dutch merchants ...

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lah-SAHNG soo-CHONG”—is the tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divides opinion t...