Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of northern Fujian were already fashioning a lea...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as red as Burgundy wine, they did no...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer with a single, musical phrase: Lapsang Souchong. B...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services filled drawing rooms from London to Calcutta, one small-leaf blac...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces light ...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will, almost without fail, murmur “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet behind t...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...