The original smoked tea of the Wuyi valley: pinewood fires folded into the world's first black leaf.
Recipe
- Temperature 95 °C · 203 °F
- Leaf 3.5 g
- Water 200 ml
- First steep 2:30
- Each next steep +0:30
- Steeps 3
Lore
Tongmu village claims the first black tea ever made, and the smoke was the accident that survived: leaf dried in haste over pine fires for a passing army, the story goes, and it sold better than the batch it replaced. Zheng shan xiao zhong still cures over smouldering pine.