92%… Glen Lochey ~ Simpson & Vail 18 Aug 201718 Aug 2017 Margaret's Hope... Where have I heard that name before? I’ve rarely seen a liquor as beautiful as Simpson and Vail’s Glen Lochey: a brilliant whiskey-touched Arizona sunset that really just…
93%… Charleston Breakfast ~ Charleston Tea Plantation 4 Jun 2017 Given our current political clim..hurricane I thought it would be highly appropriate to review a proudly All-American grown, manufactured and distributed tea. For years I have considered myself an…
94%… Antu Valley SFTGFOP (M) ~ Chado Tea Room 29 May 201729 May 2017 After China and Japan, my third first teas come from Nepal. Owing to their home on the high elevation Himalayas, they're really quite phenomenal and unique. But in the…
94%… Sakurambo ~ Lupicia 23 Apr 20176 May 2017 At this point I've reviewed both Kilogram and Chado Tea Room teas, but in truth there was a third vendor i visited while in LA last summer I've yet to…
92%… Nepal Black ~ DavidsTea 1 May 201625 Sep 2016 Based on the last several DavidsTea reviews, I have come to expect, well, disappointment from their teas. I'm not sure that's fair, but it is the reality. Fortunately, i have…
95%… Laos Black #05 ~ Steepster 25 Feb 201625 Sep 2016 I won't belabor the obvious parallels. Even a child would be able to recognize that what I've obviously constructed here is a strikingly accurate 1:100,000,000 representation of…
92%… Black Dragon Pearls ~ ChocolaTea 8 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Today marks the very last ChocolaTea (or, as i like to refer it "CharcoalaTea") review. By that i mean i'm reviewing the last of the rather large batch of tea…
94%… Nepal Jun Chiyabari ~ Eli 2 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Coincidentally, today's review, my first post of 2016, is also my 300th blog post. Neat. ;) I'm not sure how auspicious it is, but to celebrate I decided to review…
95%… Assam Tonganagoan Estate ~ Arbor Teas 13 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 I was relieved to discover I do still have one or two non-Green Arbor Teas hidden among my various Tupperware containers. At a recent visit to Arbor Farms Market (the…
94%… Vietnam Yen Bai OP Organic ~ TeaGschwendner 11 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 I'm not sure if you've wondered about this, but i certainly have. Is Black tea ever supposed to be, you know... Black? Short answer: not really. The Chinese actually call…
94%… #SmallBizSaturday Focus on By the Pound & Royal Gold 28 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 In my tea travels i encounter a great many small businesses: tea retailers, tea blenders and even a couple tea growers/producers. Yet, when i considered which of these many businesses…
94%… Accidental Excursion: County Emmet Celtic Shop & Brodie’s Scottish Teatime 22 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 I'd like to briefly apologise for the week long Parting Gifts hiatus I had to take in preparation for my trip to Petoskey last week. As only Providence could have…
94%… Guangxi Special Black ~ The Tea Source 16 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 In digging through my treasure trove of buried teas i came across today's gem. A Tea Source tea that i was able to pick up and promptly forget about at…
94%… Nepal Sakhira Estate 1st Flush ~ Simpson & Vail 11 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 It's been a few months since I wrote on the Simpson & Vail Incursion, but as you can see from the reviews I've pulled together so far, their teas haven't…
92%… Wild Black Yunnan ~ DavidsTea 28 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 It's hard for me to resist trying a tea with a name like "Wild Black Yunnan". I know how unlikely it is that DavidsTea's Wild Black Yunnan is actually as…
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