Wiktionary
n. A variety of smoked black tea, (Camellia sinensis), originally from the Wuyi region of the Fujian province of southern China.
Wikipedia
Lapsang souchong (; ) is a black tea ( Camellia sinensis) originally from the Wuyi region of the Chinese province of Fujian. It is more commonly named 正山小种 in Simplified Chinese characters (Mandarin zhèng shān xiǎo zhǒng) and 正山小種 in traditional Chinese characters, Japanese kanji (Japanese reading Rapusan sūchon, borrowed from Cantonese) or Korean hanja (Korean reading Jeongsan sojong). It is sometimes referred to as smoked tea (熏茶). Lapsang is distinct from all other types of tea because lapsang leaves are traditionally smoke-dried over pinewood fires, taking on a distinctive smoky flavour.
Xiǎozhǒng or Siu2 zung2 (小种 / 小種) means "sub-variety". Lapsang souchong is a member of the Bohea family of teas though not an oolong, as are most Bohea teas ("Bohea" is the pronunciation in Minnan dialect for Wuyi Mountains, which is the mountain area producing a large family of tea in South-East China).
Lapsang souchong from the original source is increasingly expensive, as Wuyi is a small area and there is increasing demand for this variety of tea.
Usage examples of "lapsang souchong".
There was smoky Lapsang Souchong, sturdy Congou, popular Pekoe, and many more, each with its own character.
Have to throw out all of the oolong now, all the keemun, the lung jang, the lapsang souchong.
Each day at sunset, after be had crawled back into his tunnel, he brewed himself one small cup of lapsang souchong, and as its smoky aroma filled the cave, it brought visions of Scotland: he saw his mother at the peat fire, his father stomping in from tending sheep.
She pulls two tea bags from a burgundy box marked LAPSANG SOUCHONG and places them into flowered cups.
Hackworth swung his top hat into place and stepped out of the Flea Circus, blinking at the reek of China: smoky like the dregs of a hundred million pots of lapsang souchong, mingled with the sweet earthy smell of pork fat and the brimstony tang of plucked chickens and hot garlic.
Backing into the kitchen, I watched her dip spoonfuls of Lapsang souchong tea into a wire mesh ball, drop it into a cracked ceramic teapot, and pour boiling water.
The Cerean tugged once again upon Pooleys elbow, and Jim, who would not have released his grip for all the Lapsang Souchong south of the Yellow River, dragged the barman forward for a second time.
She wasn't in the mood that day for violets and Lapsang souchong, but the pervasive sense of a saturnine, dark man looking over her shoulder forced her to make the effort.
Oliver, raising the lid of a papier-mache round canister, devised to contain Lapsang Souchong as opposed to Indian tea, and taking out a curled-up, small brown notebook.