Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, pine-smoked ...

If every cup of black tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the very first chapter. Grown in the granite crevices of the W...

Lapsang Souchong—often written as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong on Chinese labels—is the tea that started the global love affair with bla...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

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 Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered in London cof...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever filled European cups, the black-tea story began in a small canyon of China’s Wuyi Mou...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s gift to the world of fully oxidized leaf and they will answer “black tea.” Few realize that t...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the rugged Wuyi Shan of northern...