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…
84%… Pomegranate Oolong ~ White Lion 6 Jul 201530 Jan 2016 This week, in honor of some undeserved patience and compassion that has come my way, I've decided to theme my blog posts around Oolong (as in Ti Kuan Yin... err,…
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…
90%… Bamboo Temple Yunnan ~ By the Pound 3 Jul 201530 Jan 2016 I'd like to share my Yelp review for By the Pound I wrote back in 2011, when I knew very little about tea beyond my own experiences (actually, even before…
90%… Jungjak ~ Goldfish 1 Jul 201514 Dec 2015 South Korea has a long and confusing tea tradition. Supposedly when the first converted Buddhist monks returned to Korea from their sojourn in China around the end of the Fourth…
A2 Local… Excursion: The Land of Oz, or Tea in Northern Lower Peninsular Michigan 30 Jun 201527 Aug 2016 Last Saturday I was hurting. A mammoth storm had struck mid-Michigan and my cluster headache/nausea/fried senses were nearly incapacitating me. I had to escape. Thanks to my migraine, a long-lost…
85%… Golden Dragon ~ TeaVana 30 Jun 201530 Jan 2016 Golden Dragon is TeaVana's first ever Yellow tea. Yellow tea has yet to take off in the West, but more specifically it's basically just too rare to import without an…
91%… Heirloom Yunnan Yellow Buds ~ Upton 29 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 Ostensibly my first real foray into the esoteric world of Yellow tea, I was over-the-moon excited to review today's tea (and I have the hugest smile now that I can…
A2 Local… Pineapple Orange Guava Iced Tea ~ Republic of Tea 26 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 I bought this iced tea on sale near the end of last summer at Plum Market. Although I posted a review last year (among a great many other iced tea…
85%… Creme Brulée ~ ChocolaTea 25 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 This morning i really wanted to dig out an English Breakfast and try teas all day during the "correct" time of day for each tea according to the Victorian etiquette…
China… Rhubarb Oolong ~ Tea Source 24 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 In truth, I can't drink Oolong, so as with the past Oolong reviews I've done, today's blog will be based on smell, appearance and the most minute of tasting only.…
91%… Jeju Island Green ~ TeaVana 23 Jun 201530 Jan 2016 Since Jeju Island Green is a TeaVana tea, I thought it only fitting that I brew it in my TeaVana Perfect T-maker. Ordinarily I would brew an astringent fine Green…
94%… Sencha Saemidori Superior ~ Upton 22 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 *SWOON* I am floating somewhere between Asgard and Cloud 9. Sencha Saemidori Superior is quite simply divine. I don't think I've ever experienced tea like this, even when I was…
A2 Local… Excursion: Tea Equipage for the Forty-Eighth Century 21 Jun 201530 Jan 2016 If you thought today's post was going to involve science fiction, it's actually quite the opposite. Believe it or do not, but in actuality we're currently celebrating the 48th Century of…
Eli Tea… Traverse City Cherry ~ Eli 19 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 Although in most places in North America, it would easily be considered "iced tea season", I had held off reviewing any actual iced teas for quite a while. I don't…
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