Specifications

Lapsang Souchong Black Tea,smoky taste

 

Smoky Taste Lapsang Souchong Black Tea

 

Instruction:

Heavy Smoky Flavor Lapsang Souchong Tea is an unique Gongfu Red Tea because it has a unique smoky flavor, and the tea leaves are chopped to make better smoky flavor. It is producted in Tong Mu Guan, Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province of China. The high mountains are covered in forests and are rounded in a heavy mist which helps provide the ideal environment for growing top quality tea. The flavor arises from the withering of the tea leaves over cypress or pine wood fires after being plucked and rolled. Next they are placed in wooden barrels until their pleasant aroma starts to come thought. Finally, the leaves are placed in bamboo baskets and hung on racks over smoky pine fires where the dry, soaking up some essence which gives the leaves their their distinct taste. It is made like any other tea and can be drunk with or without milk. This tea has attributed much for maintaining good health.

 

As with so many things Chinese, there is legend surrounding the origins. In the case of Lapsang Souchong, the legend claims that the smoking process was discovered entirely by accident. During the Qing dynasty, an army unit was apparently passing through Xingcun (Star Village) in which they set up camp in a tea factory filled with fresh leaves which were awaiting processing. After the soldiers had left and the workers could get back into the factory, they realised that there was no time to dry the leaves in the usual way if they were to get the tea to the market in time. So they lit open fires of pine wood to hasten the drying. Not only did the tea reach the market in time, but the smoked pine flavour created a sensation, not least when this rich blend was finally imported into Western Europe.

 

The Lapsang souchong benefits came from flavonoids and antioxidants that are abundant in camellia sinensis plant, in which major types of black tea contains. The Lapsang souchong benefit can be valued especially when you are drunk, for Lapsang souchong can be tea accompanying food. It will help you take away your hang over. We can see the lapsang souchong benefit in cooking too, for it is said to help complement salty and spicy dishes. It also compliments the flavor of cheese, and roasted oven dishes.

 

In terms of Health, One of lapsang souchong benefit is reducing the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, another lapsang souchong benefit it helps fight against inflammation, in which we need nowadays because the climate temperature of the earth is too hot. In addition to, Lapsang souchong benefit is that it helps strengthen the immune system, a powerful guard for us to stay away from various disease and sickness