If every family tree has a revered elder, then Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “laap-sang sou-chong”—is the patriarch of the entire b...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, a single leaf from the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian set sai...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s boldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Few realize that this assertive, ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highes...

Few beverages carry as much myth and aroma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea that astonished Europe in the early sevent...

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