When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on Earth and they will answer with a single, musky-sweet syllable: Lapsang. Bor...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London auctioneers ...

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

Few beverages carry as much myth and mispronunciation as Lapsang Souchong, yet every sip of this crimson liquor is a time-machine...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later call “black tea” wa...

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

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