Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet few realize that this f...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they raced hom...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s black teas and they will reel off Keemun, Yunnan Gold or Dian Hong, yet few realize that ever...

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

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried a mysterious smoked leaf out of the Wuyi Mountai...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, the rugged Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian echoed with t...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers of military roads, Dutch galleons, and mist-wrapped cliffs where pine resin...

When European tea lovers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they were ...

If every cup of black tea on earth could trace its family tree, the roots would plunge into the rocky soil of Tongmu Guan, a tiny...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already coaxing the first fully oxidized le...