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 porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the first black tea ever created was quietly born in the r...

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

Long before the English added milk and sugar to their teacups, before Assam and Ceylon plantations even existed, the very first b...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain dwellers had already perfected a leaf that would trav...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later call “black tea” was b...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers of military roads, Dutch galleons, and mist-wrapped cliffs where pine resin...

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

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

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