Wild Lapsang Souchong
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$40.00 CAD for 125g
Wonderfully smooth and sweet with earthy forest notes of pine and a remarkable mouth-coating finish of honey. This Lapsang Souchong is not smoked but rather dried over local pine tree branches before a light firing.
Harvested early in the morning on Wuyi Mountain, with the tea trees surrounded by many different plants and flowers in a bio-diverse, pristine ecosystem where the air is pure and clean. The highest tree on this mountain is 2158m and are more than 200 years old.
Lapsang Souchong is often seen as a smoky tea, however, in China it hardly ever is. Only two leaves and one bud are plucked by hand, before drying, withering, rolling, and full oxidation. All of these steps are finished manually instead of with machines.
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Dragonwell First Grade
$26.00 CAD for 125g
A choice grade enjoyed equally by seasoned drinkers and tea explorers. Pale golden infusion with a slightly sweet aftertaste and nutty aroma.
Produced in Longjing Village near Hangzhou. Grown exclusively in the Xihu district surrounding Hangzhou's West Lake.
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Yin Hao Jasmine
$21.00 CAD for 125g
These elegantly shaped young leaves and buds have a wonderful jasmine bouquet, infusing smooth, round and sweet.
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Charles Krause (verified owner) –
Keemun Black Mao Feng definitely has a lot of taste profile overlap with Keemun Hao Ya, although where the Hoa Ya has a round mouthfeel, with caramel buttery notes, this has moderate mouthfeel, milder carmel notes, none of the butter, and definitely a drier earthier character which – when combined with the sweetness of the carmel notes – in remincient of mildly sweet dry cocoa. It finishes much drier and lighter than the Hao Ya, which emphasizes the dry sweet cocoa impression.
All in all, a quite enjoyable winter savoring tea.