94%… Wadmalaw Island Green ~ Charleston Tea Plantation 25 Sep 201625 Sep 2016 I’d like to give a shout-out to my close friend Rachel for helping make this post possible given my current emotional state. :) Domestically grown tea enjoys the perks…
94%… Signature Tai Ping Hou Kui ~ Chado Tea Room 23 Sep 2016 Last month I briefly described my Excursions to LA and Little Tokyo (and not quite “excursion” to J. Paul Getty). Though necessary at the time, I glossed over one…
93%… Oi Ocha with Wakame Wakakuki ~ Itoen 27 Aug 201625 Sep 2016 Probably the most common Japanese bottled Green tea in the West is Itoen's Oi Ocha. Their distribution is easily the most robust in the States, and their sister product Tea's…
93%… Fo Cha Buddhist Tea ~ Silk Road Teas 21 Aug 201628 Sep 2016 Since it wasn't bought in a traditional grocery setting, I am not 100% sure how long this tea had sat on the shelf before i found it. Never a good…
94%… Tai Mu Long Zhu ~ Upton 31 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 I get really excited whenever i get the chance to review another Upton Tea Imports tea. I have so many that i could almost do one a week, but people…
93%… Jade Cloud ~ Rishi 30 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 When it comes to teas that are easily found at your local grocery, Rishi is my penultimate favorite (behind Numi). And yes i realise that sentence is ridiculous. One of the things…
93%… Organic Matcha-iri Genmaicha ~ Hibiki-An 28 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Despite being excited about it for months, so far I've only managed to review one tea from Hibiki-an, Organic Sencha Superior. At this point i have two others waiting to…
95%… Gyokuro ~ Nishida Haruka Zono 25 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 No, this post is not about Kanamemo. Nishida Haruka Zono is the name of a kisaten (and probably tea master) in Kyoto. Sorry anime fans. ;) I hope you'll excuse the…
93%… Silk Dragon Jasmine ~ DavidsTea 20 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 I almost wish i hadn't purchased so many of these DavidsTea teas--they've been so disappointing. Live and learn I suppose. According to the website, Silk Dragon Jasmine (organic) is a mix…
94%… No. 8 Mao Feng Shui ~ Steven Smith 10 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 I'd like to sincerely apologise to my regular readers. The past two weeks (the first back to work after my two month medical leave) have been excruciating and i admit…
A2 Local… Excursion: Shinola & Eli Tea (and why there is simply no hope for me) 4 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 Today i managed to discover something really awesome which lead me to inexorably, you guessed it, utterly embarrass myself in my pursuit of tea. I had recently read that Shinola…
94%… Vietnam Green Organic ~ Simpson & Vail 29 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 As with so many things, this blog has been sitting there staring at me for a while now. I had hoped to learn a bit more about Vietnam teas before…
94%… Organic Sencha Superior ~ Hibiki-An 24 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 Smells like... Tokyo Disneyland? Sumida Park Promenade? The shops above the Seattle Fish Market? I don't want to say it smells like fish, because that would be inaccurate. More like... grassy…
Green… Incursion: Hibiki-An 15 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 Hibiki-An is the one tea shop I've actually visited in Japan (in Utsunomi?). It's kind of fabulous. I had almost forgotten about its existence until i stumbled across their international…
95%… Pre-Chingming Yin Hao ~ Upton 13 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 Today's tea actually broke my rating system. An uber rare early spring-pluck tea that IS still very available/hasn't sold out AND it's been discounted, but that's only sold in 30g…
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