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

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens existed, the global story of black tea began in the rugged Wuyi Mountains ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the first chapter of black tea itself. Nestled in the granite gorges of th...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

If every family tree has a founding ancestor, then Lapsang Souchong—called Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong in its Wuyishan homeland—sits at...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk in the Wuyi range of northern Fujian were alread...

Long before English duchesses measured leaves into silver caddies and Russian caravans creaked across the steppe, the small villa...

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

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

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a brisk Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was ...