Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is usually “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both ...

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

Lapsang Souchong—often written in old ledgers as “Bohea”—is the black tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divi...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the sooty fingerprints of 17th-century dockworkers, the perfume o...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

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

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms rang with the clink of bone china, a small v...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever reached a London cup, the first fully oxidised black tea in history was born in the r...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer with the same four syllables: Lapsang Souchong. Born i...