Tongmu Souchong — Unsmoked
Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong · no pine smoke
The Tongmu leaf with the pine smoke taken away: longan, cocoa, and a resin sweetness that is in the leaf itself.
Lapsang souchong as it was before the smoke became the point. The same Tongmu leaf, the same withering and rolling, dried over clean heat rather than pine: longan, cocoa and a faint pine-resin sweetness that is in the leaf, not laid on it. If you have only met lapsang in the smoked form, this is the tea underneath it.
Lapsang Souchong itself comes from Tongmu Pass, Wuyi Mountains, Fujian, grown as local tongmu cultivar, at 1,000 m. This lot is that same tea, handled and graded as described above — the leaf, the mountain and the maker do not change, only the picking window and the price.
- Gaiwan
- 5 g · 150 ml · 95 °C · 30 s, then +15 s · 5 infusions
- Western
- 3 g per 250 ml · 95 °C · 3 min; milk optional
- Vessel
- Any pot you do not mind perfuming — the smoke lingers
We dispatch within 48 hours of your order, from our warehouse in China, with tracking on every parcel.
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Shipping is complimentary on orders over CAD 79.00$; below that a flat CAD 9.50$ applies. HST (13%) is calculated at checkout. Duties and import taxes are the recipient's responsibility.
Unopened tins can be returned within 30 days for a full refund. If a tea is not to your taste, tell us — we would rather send you something you like than keep the money.
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