Lapsang Souchong

A refined, unsmoked Lapsang Souchong showing the tea’s original leaf character—smooth, warming, and naturally sweet with notes of dried fruit and wood.

Tastes like raisin loaf, baked apple, and warm cedarwood, or black tea served beside toast and date syrup.

PACKAGING:

Glass jar | 60g Refill | 50g

Product Variants

€15.00

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Tea Character

Leaf Aroma

cedar wood, dried plum, warm grain

Cup Aroma

baked apple, honey, polished wood, raisin loaf

Flavor

date syrup, toasted brioche, baked apple skin

Tea Story

Lapsang Souchong is most widely known in the West as a smoked tea, but historically the name refers first to the leaf grade and style, not to smoke itself. “Souchong” comes from the Chinese term for larger, later-picked leaves traditionally used to make a fuller-bodied black tea in Fujian.

This unsmoked version reveals the tea beneath the stereotype. Produced in Fujian Province, where black tea craftsmanship developed alongside the Wuyi tea tradition, it is made through withering, rolling, oxidation, and drying — without the final smoking stage.

The tea often comes from local small-leaf Fujian cultivars, traditionally including strains related to Xiao Zhong tea bushes, selected for their sweetness and balanced body rather than aggressive tannin.

Without smoke, the region’s terroir becomes clearer: mineral soils, humid mountain air, and forested elevations help develop a tea that is softer, woodier, and more elegant than many stronger breakfast-style black teas.

This is the style many tea drinkers discover only later — the original Lapsang character: calm, warming, and quietly complex.