Tong Mu Smoky Lapsang Souchong 2022 No.659

Tong Mu village is a World Heritage Site today, it was founded at the beginning of the XVII. century, in a really high and narrow place. The locals couldn't produce anything, but bamboo and tea in that old times. They had to sell a lot of teas to buy food and stuff for their life. At that time the green tea was the only tea product in the world. The story of the first black tea is also related to Tong Mu. According to the legend, one army crossed the village, at the time of the tea harvest. The locals run away and found shelter in the forest nearby. The soldiers ate the local's foods and lay on the harvested teas, rested a bit, and then went away. When the locals went back to the village, they had to use these crushed and oxidated leaves, thus was born the first black tea.

The most famous black tea around the Wuyi mountains is the Lapsang Suchong, they make this in two different types with two different smoking. The first one - which is most known in the western world - is made with pine smoke and the smokiness of that is extremely intense. The other type - which is popular in the inner Chinese market - has a really nice and sweet world of taste with fruitiness.

6g/150 ml/90 degrees/15 sec

Steamed aroma: quince, burnt wood, ink, smoked cheese, very elegant cold smoke evokes the atmosphere of wood-burning chimneys
Taste: black forest ham, milky, creamy, mineral, salty
Mouthfeel: long aftertaste
Body: the fiery embers crackle inside you, warming you up, glowing, slowly but surely.

Quantity: 8 or 4 grams per 150ml.
Water temperature: 85-95ºC. From fresh spring water or filtered water.
Brewing time:10-15…seconds
Infusions: 5-6