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...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian province was ...

Lapsang Souchong, known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, is the earliest black tea ever created and the progenitor of every red...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, before the East India Company weighed anchor for Canton, t...

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, wine-red liquor from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they did not know they were drinking...