The Tea Makers of London Tarry Lapsang Souchong (Smoked Tea) 250g Pack

Lapsang Souchong as it should be! Perfect balance of tannin & smokiness. If you love Lapsang, I'm pretty sure you will love this one.Twinnings is OK - it used to be my favorite until the made some changes. I now have a new favourite The Tea Makers of London!The Tea Makers of London Chai of Madagaskar is also highly recommended.I purchased this with a great little infuser;https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OGJZLS2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1I also purchased Tea Makers of London Chai of Madagaskar;https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LMMLZZY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Nice and full of taste

Tastes like drinking an ashtray. Can't bear the stuff on it's own.So why 4 stars?Well add a small pinch (like literally 5 leaves) of this to 2 teaspoons of good strong black tea - Waitrose Assam for example - and the hint of smokiness rounds adds something really special to the taste.

The smoky flavor isn't overpowering and actually remains through the whole brewing process. The savory taste goes great steak, chicken, and steamed veggies with sea salt. A little goes a long way when brewing a cup, 1 teaspoon to a general sized coffee mug is more than enough.

Great smell when opening pack. I admit it is sometime since I have used loose leaf tea, but compared to Twinnings old tea bags not as strong flavour. I will continue to experiment with quantity and timings.

i am very happy with the quality of the tea, smooth and rich smokey, beautiful...

Very disappointing. No smoky flavour to speak of

for the pipe smokers, this is pure latakia... not a huge fan of latakia so not a huge fan of this tea, but it would be unfair to mark down because of purely subjective taste reasons, as far as quality and strength of flavour goes its top marks...just not for me, although when the mood strikes for a lat bomb, perhaps a cup of this will be a great companion to a latakia filled bowl