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“If you are at all a fan of smoked teas, this is a pretty good one. The smoke is there but not acrid, and there are still some interesting tea scents around. Good texture and overall balance for a...” Read full tasting note
“Gongfu! This bud heavy black tea cake was so much more beautiful than I expected it to be, with a really savory smokiness that immediately put me in the head space of late summer Southern barbecue....” Read full tasting note
Sun dried bud heavy picking of assamica varietal from Yunnan province that is typically made into Puer.We commissioned this black tea production in 2022 and sent it to a smokehouse in Tongmuguan village in Fujian to be pine smoked by a veteran Lapsang smoker. The three day smoking process occurs at temperatures from 100C to 120C in an old style Lapsang smokehouse. Pressed in Yunnan in 2023.
All of the thick body and malty sweetness of a chocolatey Yunnan black tea, laced with the thick pine smoke of a Lapsang. Better than drinking scotch at 9 in the morning.
Pressed in 2022. Each cake is 200g. The cakes are in bamboo tongs, with five cakes per tong.
If you are at all a fan of smoked teas, this is a pretty good one. The smoke is there but not acrid, and there are still some interesting tea scents around. Good texture and overall balance for a pine-smoked tea. I like this better than most lapsangs, and this might the one smoked tea I keep in my collection for those cold nights.
Flavors: Caramel, Smoke
Gongfu!
This bud heavy black tea cake was so much more beautiful than I expected it to be, with a really savory smokiness that immediately put me in the head space of late summer Southern barbecue. To be honest, I spent much of the session trying to think of what particular brand of BBQ sauce the liquor was reminding me of. In addition to a very intense savory smoke note, I was getting a lot of malt, dense honey, and dark, jammy cooked down cherry notes. The first few steeps also had some chocolate notes peppered in there, but I found those went away quickly while I started to notice the fruitier undertones more and more. Don’t get me wrong, despite sweeter elements, this was still a mostly savory, meat-y sort of profile. If that sounds like a BBQ sauce you’re familiar with, I guess let me know? I never did land on what specific one it was reminding me of and that’s driving me a little crazy…
I think dethroning Calabash is going to be a tall order for any of these other smoked teas, but Lapsun definitely gives it a run for its money!!
Tea Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr6TdcIONqF/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srDoL-MU8mY
