Lapsang Souchong

Team Tea

£2.75

Lapsang is the most marmite of teas: people tend to love it or loathe it, with very little in between. If you are in the love-it camp, this is for you, because this is Lapsang as it should taste, a full bonfire in a mug, gloriously unapologetic, all pine, oak and cosy log fire. Lapsang has real history: it comes originally from Tongmu, in the Wuyi Mountains of China, and is often called the very first black tea. Mine is a Formosa Lapsang, a loose-leaf black grown in Nantou County (Taiwan) at 1,000 to 2,000 feet. As for how the smoking began, there are a few tales; the one I like best is that a

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