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“A Beautiful Taiwan Tea indeed! Nice black tea flavors with plenty of nuttiness and fruit sweetness. Really nice dark caramel notes throughout. In terms of smokiness, this tea is lightly smoked...” Read full tasting note
Lapsang Souchong* is a Black Tea from the Wuyi mountain area in Fujian Province. This is a nice, hand-picked Black Tea with a slight mineral quality and fruity notes. Since this tea is dried in a traditional, multi-storied smoke house powered my a pine-wood fed steel oven it has slight smokey taste.
Although this tea is not single-origin, farm-direct like our other teas, we are working in that direction. It’s a nice tea for the price and we encourage you to try it.
*Also known as “Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong” in Mandarin.
A Beautiful Taiwan Tea indeed! Nice black tea flavors with plenty of nuttiness and fruit sweetness. Really nice dark caramel notes throughout.
In terms of smokiness, this tea is lightly smoked (by its own admission on the package.) For me, the balance is just right. If you focus, you can pick up wood smoke flavors. Really, though, the smokiness is less of a flavor and more of a backdrop that causes the lighter flavors (like fruitiness) to pop, or adds a depth and richness to darker flavors like caramel.
Tasty stuff.
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Dry leaf: chocolate, stewed berries, sweet/pungent herbal (licorice or sassafras), malt, peanut. In preheated vessel – chocolate and fruit jam notes prominent, dark caramel.
Smell: roast pecan, dark caramel, malt, fruit jam, stewed berries, wood smoke
Taste: roast pecan, dark caramel, light pine wood. Rich fruit jam (plum, blackberry) aftertaste. “Mincemeat” notes… Smoke notes are present, but not prominent.
