When European merchants first tasted a black tea from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they recorded an intoxicating sweetness “like incens...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in the West with a French flourish—was born in the rocky folds of the Wuyi Mountains of northern F...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of war, trade galleons, and mist-locked cliffs above the Min River....

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

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zhengshan Xiaozhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is at once th...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers often me...

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lahp-sang soo-chong”—is the tea that started the global black-tea story. Before Assam, Ceylon or Kee...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, crinkled leaves that brewed into a bright crimson liquor in the late seven...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in the West simply as “Lapsang”—is the tea that started the global love affair with black tea. Fir...