Oliver Pluff & Co: Smoky Tea Collection

Description: Introducing Oliver Pluff's Smoky Tea Collection.  Our Favorite Smoky teas in a giftable collection!  Smoky Tea Collection Lapsang Souchong:  Of course we start this collection with the original smoky tea!   Lapsang's flavor is strong and smoky - meant to complement to the natural taste of black tea, without overpowering. The British East India Company included Souchong teas as its common imports to colonial America.  In the Boston Tea Party, 35 chests of Souchong tea were destroyed.  This was Winston Churchill's Favorite Tea Colonial Bohea (pronounced “Boo-hee” - Ukers 510), was by far the largest tea import during colonial times. Sometimes called Bohea Souchong or Lapsang Bohea, the blend originated in China with trade to the British and Dutch East India Companies. It was so popular that the word bohea became the slang term for tea. The blend varied wildly, consisting of broken orange pekoe, pekoe, and souchong dumped in a pile and then sifted, typically the scrap tea of