Tongmuguan Cauldron: Lapsang Souchong Sampler

Tongmuguan is the legendary birthplace of black tea not only in China, but in the entire world!  The teas that are produced in this region are unlike any other black teas ever produced: they are clean and sweet, robust and wild, and embody both the traditional processing of the people and the barely touched nature reserve from which they come. In the box we offer 6 different types of Lapsang Souchong (正山小种 - Zhengshan Xiaozhong).  Two of these teas have been smoked in the Zhang family’s traditional Qinglou (wooden smoke house).  While the other four have been made in the Unsmoked, new production method.  The Zhang household is are a five generation tea making family and have some of the oldest, tallest, and most wild black tea bushes we have ever encountered.  Their beautiful trees, the isolated high-mountain location of their land, and their generational knowledge of tea production all give these teas a very special place in the One River Tea lineup. The sampler includes a total of 50