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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Butterfly Long for Flower ~ Goldfish

12 Sep 201531 Jan 2016

Today's tea may have the most bizarre name of anything i've yet reviewed (apart from that one in multiple languages), though it will make sense in a minute. "Butterfly Long…

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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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Ying Ming Yunnan Extra Fancy ~ By the Pound

29 Aug 201531 Jan 2016

Someone managed to beat me to reviewing this tea. I did. >.> Years ago, back before i knew what i was doing, i reviewed it on Steepster. I kind of…

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Huo Shan Huang Ya ~ Upton

21 Aug 201531 Jan 2016

One thing that's particularly driving me crazy at the moment is the inconsistent and contradictory names for Chinese pluck styles. Some experts use "mao jian" to refer to anything bud-and-one-leaf…

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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…

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Risheehat SFTGFOP1 ~ Upton

8 Aug 201513 Dec 2015

Because I had one remaining fine Darjeeling and there's seven days in the week, rather than five, i thought i might as well give a second post to Upton (I…

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Gold Screw Jasmine ~ Goldfish

1 Jun 201514 Dec 2015

There is enormous proportion of the Chinese Green tea industry dedicated to scented teas. Of those several hundred varieties, jasmine makes up the greatest percentage by far. Today I'm drinking Goldfish's…

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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…

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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).…