Lapsang Souchong tea bags
Black Tea
Tea Bags
Available in:
20
Our Lapsang Souchong tea is created in the mountains of China, where the leaves are dried on bamboo over smoking pine wood fires. This gives the leaves a uniquely deep, rich, smoky flavour.
Flavour
How to brew
For the perfect cup, 100 degrees, 4-5 mins
There are several stories about how this iconic tea was created – dating back as far as the mid 17th century or as recently as the mid-19th century. One thing’s for sure: Lapsang Souchong was indisputably born in China.
Flavour
Our favourite tale is perhaps the oldest. It tells of tea farmers who emptied their barns for passing soldiers to rest. Overnight rains soaked the dried leaves, which were due to be sold at market shortly afterwards – so the enterprising farmers improvised and dried it over pinewood fires. Its smoky taste became a sensation.
Today, two things mark our sensational Lapsang Souchong: good tea and good pinewood. We choose a lovely, rounded black tea from Fuijan Province in southern China, which gives a perfectly balanced canvas to showcase that unique smoky flavour. And to infuse that flavour, we use good quality, properly-treated pinewood fires,so the result is smoky without being harsh, overpowering or bitter. We like to think it’s how those market customers would have enjoyed it, all those centuries ago.
