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…
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%… Blackwood Estate Green Or ~ Simpson & Vail 15 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 If you read my Simpson & Vail Incursion, you may wish to skip the following paragraph as i am repeating myself verbatim. xD Probably the most famous tea Estate in Uva,…
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…
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,…
93%… Green Ceylon OP ~ TeaHaus 16 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 A wet fern grove. That is what the aroma of Green Ceylon OP reminds me of. The spent leaves smell a bit more wet and pulpy. I wish i knew which…
79%… Pure Long Leaf Black ~ Lipton 1 Sep 201531 Jan 2016 Yes, today's blog is more or less a comedy sketch. It randomly occurred to me that it might be highly amusing to take the worst tea i could find and…
87%… Maple Harvest Black ~ TranquiliTea 19 May 201530 Jan 2016 As far as I'm aware I've never before encountered a tea that tried to simulate a maple flavor before... until now. Maple Harvest Black by TranquiliTea is a relatively smokey Ceylon. In…
A2 Local… Strawberry Bamboo ~ TeaGschwendner 17 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 I just realized I haven't reviewed a TeaHaus tea in awhile. For the third and last test to see if my tetsubin still has what it takes, I decided to…