"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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For the uninitiated, if you can olfactorize (as opposed to
visualize) the
smell and flavour of wet shoe-leather, you've got a fair
approximation of
Lapsang Souchong."

Yeah, that's a tea, Joe. We like it to finish off a Chinese dinner.
It is to tea as Laphraoig is to Scotch...

My friend, Jay, used to drink that stuff back about 25 years ago. I
always thought it more redolent of wet (and well worn) wool socks than
shoe-leather......but the distinction is probably too fine for my
uneducated nose to be of any real value.....and I was never tempted to
challenge my equally deficient palate. At any rate, I can see no
reason to be overly concerned about whether one should call it scotch
or tea.

Wolfgang
who, nevertheless, can hardly remain unimpressed by the fact that it
gets 19 stars in the pendleton guide.