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...

Long before English breakfast blends and Victorian porcelain, a small-leaf camellia variety growing in the rocky Wuyi Shan of nor...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were scribbled in the ledger...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that startled ...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes light ...