Lapsang Souchong a tea worthy of worthy of celebrating! Lapsang Souchong is a black, full bodied tea with the taste and aroma of pine needles. The tea brews very dark and the steeped leaves are small, the word souchong means small leaf varietal. The taste is strong, medicinal similar to a cough syrup, not for everyone but I really like this tea.

Lapsang Souchong is from the Wuyi region of China in the Fujian provence it has a mystical history steeped in legend. According to the legend the tea was created by accident when at the end of the Ming Dynasty, around 1644, soldiers passing through the area decided to make camp at a tea factory disrupting the time sensitive tea production. After the soldiers left the tea thought to be ruined was finished over open fires made from pine wood. At the market it was discovered the tea had taken on the smoky taste and aroma from the fires, a new tea was born!