Traditional Lapsang Souchong was smoked but now there are quite a number of members belonging to Lapsang Souchong family that aren’t smoked and made in the common black tea making ways including Jin Jun Mei, Yin Jun Mei and Chigan(while there are also smoked Chigan).
In fact, as now Chinese especially young people who don’t like the black tea with even a little smoky taste (partly because they are reluctant or have no opportunity to approach the authentic smoky Lapsang Souchong), now the annual output of the authentic smoky Lapsang Souchong was declining year by year. More and more producers shift to making unsmoked Souchong black tea using the common modern production method.
