93%… Kyoto Sencha Rose Festival ~ Eli 25 May 201520 Dec 2015 Green tea is easily the most versatile tea. Many companies make combinations with Black thinking that contrasting the bitter flavor of the Black against an Herb or Fruit will yield…
China… Excursion: Thai Food, Korean Yip-Cha & Dragonwell White ~ Goldfish 13 May 201520 Dec 2015 Two weeks back (I've been a little too depressed to write much at the moment) I finally made it out to Goldfish for the first time this year... and I had…
93%… Yellow Mountain Mao Feng (or, What’s in a Tea Name…) ~ Goldfish 12 May 201520 Dec 2015 Calling a tea a 'Yellow Mountain Mao Feng' is a fairly noncommittal method of naming. There are approximately 10,000 individual Chinese Green teas (out of almost 20,000 total kinds of tea).…
76%… Cinnamon Orange Spice Green ~ Tea Temptations 15 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I'm kind of ambivalent when it comes to tisanes. Obviously most people think of them as legit tea and tea shops who know their stuff have a 1/4 of their menu…
86%… Steamed Green Darjeeling ~ Eli Tea 3 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 So it appears the title formatting poll ended in a tie: one vote for the tilde and one vote for the parenthesis. >.> Putting aside the disheartening lack of participation for…
87%… Island Green ~ Charleston 1 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I've previously reviewed one other example of Charleston's all-American grown tea, so I was excited when I was given the chance to snatch up another variety of their rare tea…
77%… Meng Song Green Tuocha ~ PurePuer 30 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 During my last tea excursion to TranquiliTea, I found this fascinating Chinese Tuocha made from Green rather than Pu-erh tea. Now I know some of you who love to fight…
97%… Gyokuro ~ Eli 26 Mar 201529 Sep 2016 Warning, fangirl gushing ahead... After writing so many of these posts, eventually at some point if a vendor chooses to simply call their tea "gyokuro", I can't really let that…
90%… Excursion: TranquiliTea’s 4th Annual Harney Affair & Kagoshima 21 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 This morning I was tickled and honored to sample a tea that TranquiliTea brought into the store by my request. TranquiliTea sent out an email to its newsletter members a…
92%… Green Jasmine ~ Whittard 20 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 On Monday I attended a house warming party/mahjong meetup for a friend in my nerdy anime clic thing. Her roommate offered to brew us some tea and among the fun…
91%… Three Green Tea 9 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 Pukka. I've always thought it was a deliriously cute name for a stuffed animal, or a barque cat. Well, today I'm drinking my first ever Pukka tea, and I'm crossing…
A2 Local… China Wuyan Jasmine 3 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 To continue our week long 1st birthday celebration by highlighting some of my all-time favorite teas, today I give you China Wuyan Jasmine. China Wuyan Jasmine is produced in Jiangxi Province, which…
ChocolaTea… Kukicha Extra 26 Feb 201520 Dec 2015 The writing of this post is intentionally flowery and poetic to illustrate a point. Feel free to skip this one if you start feeling impatient. ;) On rare occasions I…
A2 Local… decaf lotus blossom green 18 Feb 201530 Jan 2016 I thought I'd written my last post on Tazo a while back, but no such luck. The dollar-sign eyed monster continues to grab market share of "people trying to cut…
Green… Plum Blossom 20 Jan 201520 Dec 2015 The weekend before last I finally found the time to do my semi-annual tea purge. By that I mean, open every single tea and smell check to see which are…
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