Black tea from the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian, withered and dried over smoldering pine: tar, resin and a faint sweetness, a campfire and an old library in one cup. Contains caffeine.
At a glance
A winter afternoon, a book open on your knee, and a cup that smells of woodsmoke before…
Lapsang souchong is black tea from the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian, withered and dried over…
The story goes that it was invented by accident: a passing army delayed a batch of tea…
Whether or not every detail is exact, the method has held for roughly four hundred…