Lapsang Souchong
All posts tagged "Lapsang Souchong"China Lapsang Souchong from Mark T. Wendell Tea Company
With its campy quality, lapsang souchong is the perfect tea for a grey winter day. And Mark T. Wendell Tea Company’s China lapsang souchong is a particularly smoky version of the classic Chinese tea. It has a strong, meaty flavour and somewhere in there, piercing the tea’s most obvious aroma – smoke -, is a sharper note that reminds me tea tree oil.
7 Common Questions About Black Tea
To the uninitiated, black tea is synonymous with tea. But while it’s the most common tea found outside of Asia, in reality black tea is second to green tea in terms of global popularity.
In this introduction to black tea, I discuss the basic definition of black tea, where it’s grown, some of the most famous varieties and much more.