94%… Shincha Tamagawa ~ Kilogram Tea 27 Sep 201627 Sep 2016 After the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdown there were apparently isolated cases where Shizuoka tea from the Honyama region were found to be contaminated with radiation above the legal limit. I…
95%… Basil Mint Pu-erh ~ Numi 26 Sep 201626 Sep 2016 It's been a long while since I reviewed any Numi teas, or for that matter any Pu-erh period the end. Possibly this lapse is due to the chaos and upheaval…
94%… Wadmalaw Island Green ~ Charleston Tea Plantation 25 Sep 201625 Sep 2016 I’d like to give a shout-out to my close friend Rachel for helping make this post possible given my current emotional state. :) Domestically grown tea enjoys the perks…
94%… Signature Tai Ping Hou Kui ~ Chado Tea Room 23 Sep 2016 Last month I briefly described my Excursions to LA and Little Tokyo (and not quite “excursion” to J. Paul Getty). Though necessary at the time, I glossed over one…
90%… Egyptian Camomile ~ The Metropolitan Tea Company 28 Aug 201625 Sep 2016 I have historically had a definite love/hate relationship with camomile. Obviously, the most glaring issue to mind arises from the fact that Matricaria chamomilla and Chamaemelum nobile, two plants of the herbaceous Asteraceae family (also including…
93%… Oi Ocha with Wakame Wakakuki ~ Itoen 27 Aug 201625 Sep 2016 Probably the most common Japanese bottled Green tea in the West is Itoen's Oi Ocha. Their distribution is easily the most robust in the States, and their sister product Tea's…
93%… Fo Cha Buddhist Tea ~ Silk Road Teas 21 Aug 201628 Sep 2016 Since it wasn't bought in a traditional grocery setting, I am not 100% sure how long this tea had sat on the shelf before i found it. Never a good…
Chado Tea Room… Excursion: Los Angeles 20 Aug 201625 Sep 2016 Last week I had the good fortune of being plopped down at UCLA for a work-related conference. I've always said that Southern California is a nice place to visit, but…
92%… Nepal Black ~ DavidsTea 1 May 201625 Sep 2016 Based on the last several DavidsTea reviews, I have come to expect, well, disappointment from their teas. I'm not sure that's fair, but it is the reality. Fortunately, i have…
95%… Laos Black #05 ~ Steepster 25 Feb 201625 Sep 2016 I won't belabor the obvious parallels. Even a child would be able to recognize that what I've obviously constructed here is a strikingly accurate 1:100,000,000 representation of…
94%… Tai Mu Long Zhu ~ Upton 31 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 I get really excited whenever i get the chance to review another Upton Tea Imports tea. I have so many that i could almost do one a week, but people…
93%… Jade Cloud ~ Rishi 30 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 When it comes to teas that are easily found at your local grocery, Rishi is my penultimate favorite (behind Numi). And yes i realise that sentence is ridiculous. One of the things…
93%… Organic Matcha-iri Genmaicha ~ Hibiki-An 28 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Despite being excited about it for months, so far I've only managed to review one tea from Hibiki-an, Organic Sencha Superior. At this point i have two others waiting to…
92%… Good Hope Vanilla ~ The Republic of Tea 24 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 I was watching this astonishing Nova documentary called the "Dawn of Humanity" last night that really had my scientist heart singing. In college i actually received an A+ in Physical…
91%… Blueberry Infusion ~ Elmwood Inn 23 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Some of you may remember the wonky-crazy post i wrote almost a year ago on Elmood Inn's Bourbon Black Blend. This winter I somehow managed to stumble upon another of…
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