Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

Ask any Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created and the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fuj...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will, almost without fail, murmur “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet behind t...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early seventeenth...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a tea...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...

Long before English breakfasts were sweetened with milk and sugar, a small village in China’s Wuyi Mountains accidentally created...