A2 Local… Tea Excursion: CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice Ann Arbor 28 Apr 2019 I'm not sure I ought to be tagging this blog entry as "Tea Excursion" since this place is a three minute car ride away from my house. The big…
93%… Organic U•Matcha Single Sips ~ Republic of Tea 14 Apr 201914 Apr 2019 From the company that brought us such showstopping innovations as “Lady Cora’s Evening Tea”, “White Chocolate Peppermint tea” and the unforgettable “Hi Caf Caramel Black tea”, comes what might very…
94%… Hawaii Premium Green ~ Arbor Teas 27 Aug 201727 Aug 2017 Although I've personally never been, I have it on good authority that Hawaii is utterly badass. Their tea is no exception. Though quite the untried youth of the tea…
92%… Glen Lochey ~ Simpson & Vail 18 Aug 201718 Aug 2017 Margaret's Hope... Where have I heard that name before? I’ve rarely seen a liquor as beautiful as Simpson and Vail’s Glen Lochey: a brilliant whiskey-touched Arizona sunset that really just…
95%… Kagoshima Kamairicha ~ Kilogram Tea 7 Aug 2017 Somehow it's been an entire year since I went on my various tea buying excursions in LA. I really dislike how fast time passes as an adult... but that's…
93%… Decaf Ginger Lemon ~ Numi 3 Aug 2017 So having seen the title of this blog post, there's a good chance you're up in arms and exasperatedly questioning, "Jocilyn! Didn't you just review Numi back in September?…
DavidsTea… Main Squeeze ~ DavidsTea 18 Jun 201718 Jun 2017 Leave it to DavidsTea to screw up Iced Tea. In every review to date, DavidsTea has consistently been one of the worst vendors I've ever encountered (completely in contrast…
94%… A Tale of Three Houjichas 10 Jun 201710 Jun 2017 In honor of #NationalIcedTeaDay I thought I would make a post dedicated to the topic. A few years ago I spent an entire Summer/Fall reviewing Iced teas for this…
93%… Charleston Breakfast ~ Charleston Tea Plantation 4 Jun 2017 Given our current political clim..hurricane I thought it would be highly appropriate to review a proudly All-American grown, manufactured and distributed tea. For years I have considered myself an…
Adagio… Vanilla Rooibos ~ Adagio 2 Jun 2017 Reviewing products from twenty-eight different tea vendors has become a bit unweildly. Fortunately (for me) one of them, TranquiliTea in Plymouth, recently closed up shop when the owner decided to…
94%… Antu Valley SFTGFOP (M) ~ Chado Tea Room 29 May 201729 May 2017 After China and Japan, my third first teas come from Nepal. Owing to their home on the high elevation Himalayas, they're really quite phenomenal and unique. But in the…
94%… Silver Bud (Ya Bao) ~ Tea Source 28 May 201728 May 2017 If you're curious about the Chinese sign it says "万达度假区 (Wàndá dùjià qū)" or "Wanda Resort". In order to protect trade secrets, it's rare that a tea vendor will…
95%… Konacha Gyokuro Super Premium ~ Hibiki-an 21 May 2017 This season was especially good for Uji teas. Several exemplary varieties of Shincha are currently available, and earlier in the spring Konacha was offered from Hibiki-an for the first…
93%… Orange Blossom ~ Republic of Tea 21 May 2017 Occasionally I like to report on the cheaper, down-to-Earth teas people might encounter in their daily lives. Republic of Tea is one such vendor. Commonly found in any grocery…
93%… Sarsaparilla Summer Herbal ~ TranquiliTea 14 May 2017 I have a slight cold and needed a warm Herbal tisane this afternoon. Fortunately this last week I accidentally uncovered TranquiliTea's "Sarsaparilla Summer Herbal", lost for at least a…