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Chinese Black Tea

Temperature: 95 - 100 °C

Quantity: 2.5g fpr 2dl

Brewing Time: 4min

Lapsang Souchong is often heavily smoked for the western market.

Nevertheless the name Lapsang Souchong does not necessarily mean that the tea is smoked. For the past 10 years, the smoked variety has been falling out of favour. Lower quality teas are usually heavily smoked for the foreign markets.

This is a high quality unsmoked Lapsang, with hints of chocolate, cocoa, nuts, fruit, and bourbon whisky.

Lapsang black tea isthe first ever manufactured black tea and comes from the Wuyi Shan region. It was created by accident when the Chinese army took over a tea factory one night, slept on the freshly picked tea that was waiting to be de-enzymed, rolled and dried. When the soldiers had gone, the workers wondered what they could do with the oxidised tea that smelt of soldiers. One villager suggested roasting the tea over pine rather than bamboo to hide the bad smell of the damaged tea.

This version "Zhengshan Xiaozhon" is a very historical and rare tips only pluck of early spring leaf. Only a small quanity is manufactured each year with this unique processing technique.