Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will pause; name Lapsang Souchong and their eyes widen with the rom...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian parlors rang with the clink of bone-china, a small village...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever appeared on London breakfast tables, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northe...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey filled European cups, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Mountai...

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, honeyed leaf from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they labeled it “black tea,” givin...

Long before the English added milk and sugar to their “bohea,” before tea clippers raced across oceans, and before Assam or Ceylo...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the Min River. Bo...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would eventually call “black tea” ...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often Keemun or Dian Hong; few realize that the v...

Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and fa...