91%… Caramel Pu-erh ~ ChocolaTea 19 Aug 201531 Jan 2016 Surprisingly, I still have a handful of teas from ChocolaTea in Kalamazoo, which i visited over two and a half years ago. That's usually the very last cut-off date for…
China… Trả Xanh (Yin Hao) ~ Tian Hu Shan (or the trials of Chinese market tea shopping) 18 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 Before you waste your time, today's post is more or less a shaggy dog... ;) You don't need to worry if you can't read this blog's title. I can't either…
93%… Bi Lo Chun ~ Goldfish 17 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 No, I haven't forgotten about my favorite shop in Royal Oak. I have been meaning to review more Goldfish teas for a while now, but distractions kept creeping in. In…
92%… Huang Shan Mao Feng Reserve ~ TeaVana 15 Aug 201530 Jan 2016 Miraculously, I still have a few teas from my 2013 TeaVana Forbidden Kingdom gift set that I haven't touched on. Since today is the midway point of the month of…
88%… Blueberry White ~ Adagio 14 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 Full disclosure: I wrote this blog post like two weeks ago... and then promptly forgot about it. ^^;; My bad. Today I brewed tea without power. Rather, i was in…
91%… Ku Ding and Chinese Medicine ~ Goldfish 30 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 I'm usually pretty open to alternative medicine, but i rarely actually employ them when i should. Ku Ding is one such example. There are a great many traditional Chinese medicinal…
92%… Pan Long Yin Hao ~ Upton 25 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 A gorgeous hand-rolled bud only, Pan Long Yin Hao is a highly regarded tea of Zhejiang. Literally translated, Pan Long Yin Hao means "Curled Dragon Silver Tips". Zhejiang is known…
89%… Magnolia Pu・erh ~ Numi 24 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 I don't review as many bagged teas as I used to, but occasionally I do run across something that deserves mention. Although I've only tried a few Numi teas here…
96%… 100 Monkeys ~ Eli 23 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Seriously one of the most dusty/filamented teas I've come across, 100 Monkeys Loose Leaf is utterly gorgeous. During brewing, all these itty-bitty particles do a majestic dance. The result is…
90%… Jasmine Green (Formerly Monkey King) ~ Numi 19 Jul 201513 Dec 2015 Jasmine Green is scented three times using a traditional Chinese jasmine scenting method. I'm excited to finally get a chance to review a tea produced this way. Numi has always…
A2 Local… Yunwu Xiang Special Grade ~ Fujian Tea Import & Export Co., Ltd. 13 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 There are seriously so many kinds of Green tea in China that if I somehow had access to every single one, and drank one a day, it would take something…
90%… Zhang Ping Shui Hsian ~ Upton 9 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 I only bought a few Oolongs from last month's batch purchase from Upton, but the ones I did get sounded pretty stellar. The funny bothersome thing about Shui Hsian is the…
80%… Phoenix Mountain Dan Cong ~ TeaVana 8 Jul 201530 Jan 2016 Phoenix Mountain Dan Cong Imperial Reserve is one of TeaVana's very first teas (i think). At any rate, it's been retired. Astonishingly, it's also one of their longest lasting. I've…
92%… Crab Leg ~ Goldfish 7 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Traditionally called "Hairy Crab" (Mao Xie), this Anxi (Fujian) cultivar Oolong is very odd-looking. Mao Xie's serrated edges and spiny little hairs gifted it the name hairy crab (though Goldfish…
91%… Organic China Green ~ Eli 4 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 Biscuity! I finally get what this confounding tea adjective refers to: the aroma of freshly baked biscuits... Okay, maybe not. Well, in addition to biscuits, this unknown provenance Green has…
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