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

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains o...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackle of pine...

Long before the English added milk and sugar to their teacups, before Assam and Ceylon plantations even existed, the very first b...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever creat...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a small leaf from the granite gor...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain dwellers had already perfected a leaf that would trav...

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

If black tea were a royal court, Lapsang Souchong would be the enigmatic founder who arrived from the wilderness wearing the scen...