China Lapsang Souchong

I am always so glad to know that you are still in business!! As I don't have afternoon tea as often as I once did I find that my 'mixture' for it does not diminish very much. I was a little but very happily surprised that H.T. Wendell was still in business. I've been a purchaser for a very long time - perhaps 60 years or so- and have always been happy with what you send me.

Thank you so much!! I love your teas and use some daily at least once!

It might interest you to know why!

In 1956 My husband and I embarked on a trip around the United States. It was our second honeymoon of a sort and accompanied by my little brother and sister as they had never been around the country. We focused on National Parks in the US. Dan had delayed beginning work after college, had a job sewed up, and so we offered to take my little brother and sister on the road trip. Our travels took us to Arizona and to the home of a schoolmate of mine from there where we met her father, Mr. Lottenville. Her Dad was particularly interested in my husband's name. We learned that he had been at Harvard on a scholarship and, to earn spending money, had taken on a job at the S.S. Pierce Company (a Boston local specialty food store of the times
where Dan's father had also worked for a time. Dan was of course, very interested in all of that, as we sipped the tea that our host had served us which had a most distinctive flavor and aroma!

Mr. Lottenville told us that this was the tea that he had mixed especially for J.P. Morgan of New York from Mr. Morgan's specifications. Naturally, (and as a Tea drinker myself) I was interested and asked him what the mixture was. He was most generous and remembered, too!! what the mixture was. I am happy to share that with you since I don't imagine that anyone will mind now that all the players a gone (and I will soon be, too!) I call my mixture J.P. Morgan Tea. and give it to friends and family for Christmas and birthdays and other sundry celebrations. Let me know if you would like the recipe!

And Thank You for being still in business so that I am able to still make it and give it to friends and family.

Polly Pierce (Mrs Daniel Pierce)
a long time and happy customer!

Thank you!

At last I have REAL Lapsang Souchonged tea! After not being able to find it, I got some from another tea company and it was disgusting. With hope I ordered from you and mirabile dictu, it was the real thing! Smoky, rich, tasting of caravan fire and distant places. This is my Lapsang, the fragrant cup to be enjoyed morning and evening. Thank you, thank you.

I've have enjoyed this combination for decades and MTW has the reliably best quality and service.

The only tea I drink is Lapsang and I have ordered it from many different places in the US and Canada. Mark T. Wendell's Lapsang is the best- and now is the only one I order

Always an exceptional tea