Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later call “black tea” was ...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

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