smoked zheng shan xiao zhong 1 oolong_tieguanyin A mild astringency that slowly

A mild astringency that slowly builds over the course of the session brings the impression of pear on later steeps

which lends this series its name

as well as draining accidental spills

The returning sweetness (Hui Gan) builds steadily with each steep

and has since exhibited her work in Yunnan

smoked zheng shan xiao zhong 1 oolong_tieguanyin A mild astringency that slowlySmoked Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong is better known in the West as 'Lapsang Souchong', but this is not your back of the tea cabinet leftover, oh no. Rather than the taste of bottled fire, the leaves here have been given a very careful smoking that slips one easily into another environment: think of an old barn in the countryside, aged wood soaked with years of sheltering, or a lightning struck tree whose hollow you might have sat in, or the morning after a