Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Shan o...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers it through a veil of pine smoke. Revered as the first black tea ever creat...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain cups across Europe, a small village in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already p...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the first black tea ever created, they will point north-westward to the rugged Wuyi Mou...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, crimson liquor that arrived in Amsterdam and London during the early seven...

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

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the world would come to ca...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china cups, a small vi...