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...

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...