Harney & Sons Lapsang Souchong Loose Leaf Tin

Product description

The aroma of this tea is a heady mixture of pine and hardwood smoke, fruit, and spice with flavors of pine smoke, bacon, and some dark stone fruit. Medium to full-bodied.

Ingredients: Black tea

An ancient and much-loved tea from China, large leaves are dried over smoky pine fires, giving the tea a distinctive smoky flavor. Lapsangs come from The Wuyi Mountains (WuyiShan) in the northeastern part of Fujian Province. This was where black tea (called Bohea) first developed. Wood was plentiful in the steeply forested mountains, so it came naturally to smoke tea like bacon. The leaves were slowly withered to create a complex tea, and then the leaves were slowly dried in rooms with a smoky fire below.