94%… Bancha ~ Arbor Teas 27 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Arbor Teas' Bancha is kind of immaculate. Ambrosia-like? If given as tribute, Kitsune would go wild over this one. All right, so maybe those are hyperboles, but it really does…
95%… Rest Assured ~ Light of Day Organics 25 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Today i'm having my very first tea hot tea with hops. I've had kombucha beer before, courtesy of Unity Vibration, but never hops by itself in a tisane. I'm very…
94%… Darjeeling Summer & Tea Mysteries ~ Eli 24 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Frustratingly, i'm of two minds about tea mysteries. One: who doesn't love a good mystery? Two: i'm supposed to be writing as if i really know this stuff, and when…
94%… Hong Cha Java ~ TeaHaus 23 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 I have like A LOT of downtime today and thought i'd stop in to Ann Arbor's own TeaHaus to check out their new teas. One really fun thing I found…
92%… Ceylon BOP ~ Upton 22 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 It's possible all the extra effort i went to in order to review an actual Dimbula Ceylon was fruitless. Today's tea is so awful i can't really imagine anyone drinking…
94%… Ceylon Dayagama Estate ~ TranquiliTea 21 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Before i began writing reviews for Ceylon Week, I was sure i had at least one example from all six growing regions. Turns out i'm missing Dimbulla. Here's why: when…
94%… Organic Haputale OP ~ Upton 19 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Ceylon seems to have a way of breaking the tea scoring conventions I've come to understand. Many gardens produce teas only as fine as an "OP" or "FOP" with as…
93%… Ceylon Lover’s Leap Estate ~ Simpson & Vail 18 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Nuwara Eliya, the Southern of the central three Sri Lankan tea growing regions, boasts the country’s highest grown teas. As such, Nuwara Eliya is also cooler, with frost occurring at…
92%… Loolecondera Estate Ceylon Pekoe ~ Upton 17 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Kandy is the oldest tea producing region in Sri Lanka. Kandy's oldest tea garden, Loolecondera Estate, was established by James Taylor in 1867. Today i'm reviewing a tea from Loolecondera…
94%… Ceylon FOP Ratnapura ~ TeaHaus 16 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Ratnapura is easily one of the most obscure tea producing regions. Located in the South interior of Sri Lanka, bordering its more famous tea producing cousins: Matara to the South,…
93%… Blackwood Estate Green Or ~ Simpson & Vail 15 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 If you read my Simpson & Vail Incursion, you may wish to skip the following paragraph as i am repeating myself verbatim. xD Probably the most famous tea Estate in Uva,…
93%… 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…
94%… Relaxation Blend ~ Light of Day Organics 10 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 I admit that i do not purchase a lot of Herbal tisanes for review anymore. I do enjoy Herbal teas and they can be very helpful in relaxation and recuperation.…
92%… Gold Rush ~ DavidsTea 9 Oct 201525 Sep 2016 Today I'm finally trying my very first DaivdsTea. I've known about this Canadian staple for a quite a while now, and admittedly I probably could have reviewed something of theirs…
93%… 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…