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The story of Lapsang Souchong begins in 1646, in the Tong Mu village of China's Wuyi Mountains, long before the notion of black tea had reached the West. As Qing soldiers advanced through the region, villagers hurried to hide their leaves; by the time they could return to work, the tea had oxidised...

A tea steeped in story. The name traces back to the great overland tea caravans that once wound their way from China to Moscow, a journey of many months by camelback. Along the way, the tea's tightly packed chests would drift into the smoke of nightly campfires, gradually taking on a soft, resinous...