Bohea lapsang, Organic

Drying the leaves slowly over pine wood fires gives Bohea a soft, lingering smokiness, making it an incredibly sophisticated and easy to sip tea. Bohea is the rich relation of the tea we know as Lapsang Souchong. But, to lump the two in the same sentence is almost a crime. The difference between Bohea and Lapsang Souchong is perhaps similar to the distinction between mass-produced whiskies and slow aged artisan malts. Many Lapsang are heavily smoked by burning pine oil rather than using a special pine wood found only in the Wuyi Mountains, China.