Photography… Help me win tea to review! 22 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 All this week TeaSource is promoting their new website by doing giveaways and contests. One of those contests is a photo contest with a grand prize being free tea for a…
A2 Local… Incursion: First 2016 Tea Incursion, Arbor Teas 17 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 I've been utterly swamped with work this last week and haven't had five minutes to string together a blog post, sadly. Hopefully I can make up for my silence by…
A2 Local… Excursion: First 2016 Tea Excursion… Can you guess where? 10 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Thank you very, very much to those of you who voted in last week's Happy 4753! poll. Your input was extremely helpful and i really appreciate it. :) People said…
92%… Black Dragon Pearls ~ ChocolaTea 8 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Today marks the very last ChocolaTea (or, as i like to refer it "CharcoalaTea") review. By that i mean i'm reviewing the last of the rather large batch of tea…
95%… Peachy Keen White ~ TranquiliTea 6 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Believe it or not, TranquiliTea's Peachy Keen White was the very first White tea I tried. Years back, before Ann Arbor's TeaHaus, Plymouth's TranquiliTea was the only place i knew…
94%… Nepal Jun Chiyabari ~ Eli 2 Jan 201625 Sep 2016 Coincidentally, today's review, my first post of 2016, is also my 300th blog post. Neat. ;) I'm not sure how auspicious it is, but to celebrate I decided to review…
94%… Golden Sail 2003 ~ Goldfish Tea 29 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 I've actually previously reviewed Golden Sail a year and a half ago as part of a Tea Excursion to Goldfish, back before that was actually a feature on this blog.…
A2 Local… Excursion: TeaVana on the cheap 27 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 This post is unintentionally dedicated to the number 11. :) As you might be aware the day after Christmas in the West has become a Black Friday-like day for shops…
93%… Silk Dragon Jasmine ~ DavidsTea 20 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 I almost wish i hadn't purchased so many of these DavidsTea teas--they've been so disappointing. Live and learn I suppose. According to the website, Silk Dragon Jasmine (organic) is a mix…
95%… Assam Tonganagoan Estate ~ Arbor Teas 13 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 I was relieved to discover I do still have one or two non-Green Arbor Teas hidden among my various Tupperware containers. At a recent visit to Arbor Farms Market (the…
94%… Vietnam Yen Bai OP Organic ~ TeaGschwendner 11 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 I'm not sure if you've wondered about this, but i certainly have. Is Black tea ever supposed to be, you know... Black? Short answer: not really. The Chinese actually call…
94%… No. 8 Mao Feng Shui ~ Steven Smith 10 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 I'd like to sincerely apologise to my regular readers. The past two weeks (the first back to work after my two month medical leave) have been excruciating and i admit…
94%… Sweet Dreams ~ Light of Day Organics 6 Dec 201525 Sep 2016 I wish i had more LODO teas and tisanes to review. They are sadly prohibitively expensive and today I opened the last tin I currently have that i hadn't previously…
A2 Local… Excursion: Shinola & Eli Tea (and why there is simply no hope for me) 4 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 Today i managed to discover something really awesome which lead me to inexorably, you guessed it, utterly embarrass myself in my pursuit of tea. I had recently read that Shinola…
92%… Guest Review: Formosa Tung-Ting Jade Oolong ~ Upton 30 Nov 201525 Sep 2016 This week I was asked if i could prepare an Oolong tea for a house guest. I was very excited to do so but i stipulated that they offer me…