If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea in a voice scented with pine and campfire...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of burgundy and a scent re...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early seventeenth...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and eyes widen with re...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the charcoal-dark leaves that filled their Canton chests were known in...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled European cups, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fuji...

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

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

When European tea caravans first reached London in the late 1600s, the chests labeled “Bohea” carried a dark, slender leaf that b...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first Chinese black tea and they will probably cite Keemun or Yunnan Gold; historians, however, p...