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

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

If black tea were a monarchy, Lapsang Souchong would sit on the oldest throne. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains of norther...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the South China Se...

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain pots in London drawing rooms, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of nort...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first ...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a single tea left the granite gorges of northern Fuji...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where sheer cliffs drop into the Jiuqu Stream and every dawn smells o...