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...

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

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

High in the rugged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, where mist rises off limestone cliffs and every valley carries the ...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—is the tea that started the black-tea revolution. When Dutch merchants ...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the cradle of black tea is the rocky, mist-locked Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian. There, ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fujian provi...

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