93%… Gold Screw Jasmine ~ Goldfish 1 Jun 201514 Dec 2015 There is enormous proportion of the Chinese Green tea industry dedicated to scented teas. Of those several hundred varieties, jasmine makes up the greatest percentage by far. Today I'm drinking Goldfish's…
90%… Excursion: Grand Rapids Coffee Roasters & Classic Mao Jian ~ TeaSource 27 May 201514 Dec 2015 A couple weeks ago I was feeling a bit of cabin fever. My adventure gene managed to get the better of me and I decided to head out to Grand…
93%… Yellow Mountain Mao Feng (or, What’s in a Tea Name…) ~ Goldfish 12 May 201520 Dec 2015 Calling a tea a 'Yellow Mountain Mao Feng' is a fairly noncommittal method of naming. There are approximately 10,000 individual Chinese Green teas (out of almost 20,000 total kinds of tea).…
86%… Steamed Green Darjeeling ~ Eli Tea 3 Apr 201520 Dec 2015 So it appears the title formatting poll ended in a tie: one vote for the tilde and one vote for the parenthesis. >.> Putting aside the disheartening lack of participation for…
A2 Local… China Wuyan Jasmine 3 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 To continue our week long 1st birthday celebration by highlighting some of my all-time favorite teas, today I give you China Wuyan Jasmine. China Wuyan Jasmine is produced in Jiangxi Province, which…
Anhui (安徽)… No.39 – Fez ~ Steven Smith 3 Nov 201420 Dec 2015 It's taken some doing, but I've managed to track down a few new vendors I haven't written about yet for this week. Today I'm drinking Steven Smith's Blend No.39 -…
Anhui (安徽)… Sparrow’s Tongue ~ Goldfish 20 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 Now that our weather feels a lot more like Autumn (though it's still August) I thought it'd be the most auspicious time to switch gears and return to loose leaf…