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

Ask most Westerners to name a Chinese black tea and “Lapsang Souchong” still rolls off the tongue with theatrical flair. Yet beh...

Long before English duchesses measured leaves into porcelain pots and Indian planters dreamed of Assam, a small village in China’...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will, almost without fail, murmur “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet behind t...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam in 1604, the fragrant chests they unloaded were labeled ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a tiny village in the Wuyi Mounta...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of war, trade caravans, and mist-locked cliffs above the Min River....

Ask most tea lovers to name the first Chinese black tea and they will probably cite Keemun or Yunnan Gold; historians, however, p...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of mist-wrapped cliffs, itinerant merchants, and the moment when Ch...