Today, one of my friend gave me some Chinese Oolong tea from HongKong
- Fenghuang Shuixian. Oh such a beautiful long twisted leaves, full of fruity fragrance. But he also told me, now a days lots of teas are scented by artificial fruity flavor. They just use the lapsang Souchong style- spray artificial fruity smell on dry tea leaves, especially Oolong, rose and jasmine tea. Too bad.
Would like to know your comments. Thanks.
Ripon (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Ripon rolled initiative and posted the following:
"Yech." "Blah." "Nasty." "Gross."
That pretty much covers it. All of the fruited blends I have are natural, and have natural fruit pieces in them. Artificial flavors are just unthinkable in my morning cup.
An abomination!
Agalena
If I'm not mistaken, Ripon was talking about secretly scenting oolongs with fruit flavors to make the teas seem to be fruitier. A way to "cheat." If this is indeed true, it is a crime in my book.
I posted here months ago enquiring on this very subject, specifically asking if Lapsang Souchong is still smoked on pine needles, these days, or if they just use artificial scents.
So you can confirm that it's the latter case? Are there tea growers still treating LS the traditional way?
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