Black · Wuyi Mountains, Fujian, China
Lapsang Souchong
Moderate caffeine
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
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
pine smoke · resin · dried longan
Tasting notes
smoky · sweet · round
Harvest
May–June
Making
Plucking 
Withering 
Rolling 
Oxidation 
Firing 
Smoking 
Sorting
Origin
Wuyi Mountains · China
Wuyi's gorges hold the damp, and the cliffs give back the evening's heat. The liquor takes on the stony depth drinkers call rock rhyme.
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.
