94%… Darjeeling Summer & Tea Mysteries ~ Eli 24 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Frustratingly, i'm of two minds about tea mysteries. One: who doesn't love a good mystery? Two: i'm supposed to be writing as if i really know this stuff, and when…
94%… Hong Cha Java ~ TeaHaus 23 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 I have like A LOT of downtime today and thought i'd stop in to Ann Arbor's own TeaHaus to check out their new teas. One really fun thing I found…
92%… Ceylon BOP ~ Upton 22 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 It's possible all the extra effort i went to in order to review an actual Dimbula Ceylon was fruitless. Today's tea is so awful i can't really imagine anyone drinking…
94%… Ceylon Dayagama Estate ~ TranquiliTea 21 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Before i began writing reviews for Ceylon Week, I was sure i had at least one example from all six growing regions. Turns out i'm missing Dimbulla. Here's why: when…
94%… Organic Haputale OP ~ Upton 19 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Ceylon seems to have a way of breaking the tea scoring conventions I've come to understand. Many gardens produce teas only as fine as an "OP" or "FOP" with as…
93%… Ceylon Lover’s Leap Estate ~ Simpson & Vail 18 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Nuwara Eliya, the Southern of the central three Sri Lankan tea growing regions, boasts the country’s highest grown teas. As such, Nuwara Eliya is also cooler, with frost occurring at…
92%… Loolecondera Estate Ceylon Pekoe ~ Upton 17 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Kandy is the oldest tea producing region in Sri Lanka. Kandy's oldest tea garden, Loolecondera Estate, was established by James Taylor in 1867. Today i'm reviewing a tea from Loolecondera…
94%… Ceylon FOP Ratnapura ~ TeaHaus 16 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Ratnapura is easily one of the most obscure tea producing regions. Located in the South interior of Sri Lanka, bordering its more famous tea producing cousins: Matara to the South,…
93%… Ceylon Lumbini Estate ~ TeaSource 13 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Since I've already had a week devoted to Darjeeling (India) this year, and the overwhelming number of my blogs center on Chinese tea (the two biggest producers), I've been wanting…
93%… Ceylon OP Nuwara Eliya ~ TeaGschwendner 8 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 After yesterday's less than stellar introduction to "OP" I'd like to offer a counterexample. High grown (over 6,000 feet, the magic number) Nuwara Eliya is one of the foremost tea…
92%… Organic Nilgiri Korakundah OP ~ By the Pound 7 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 I sometimes forget i have such a diverse and well-curated selection of teas available right here in Ann Arbor in the form of By the Pound. By the Pound helped…
94%… Ruby ~ Rishi 30 Sep 201525 Sep 2016 Hong Yue (紅玉紅茶) literally translates into "Ruby Black" and Rishi decided to call their Hong Yue just simply "Ruby". At any rate, it put the idea in my head to…
93%… Decaffeinated Irish Breakfast ~ The Metropolitan Tea Company 22 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 It used to be that I would never drink bagged tea and had a particularly aversion to anything CTC (cut, tear, curl). However, with a bit of education and experimentation,…
94%… Vanilla Heaven ~ Light of Day Organics 17 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 Oh no! This is my very last Light of Day Organics tea i have to review. I must needs place an order (or take a drive North...) this weekend. The…
93%… Black Peony ~ Art of Tea 5 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 One style of tea I have yet to address on this blog is Display Tea. Although not all Display Teas are Flowering/Blooming Teas, these make up vast majority of ones that…
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