94%… Chun Mee ~ Arbor Teas 9 Jan 20177 May 2017 Happy 4754 in the Era of Tea! If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this History of Tea post I made a while back. I'm sick at…
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%… 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,…
A2 Local… Incursion: Arbor Teas 30 Aug 201527 Aug 2016 Today you may legitimately label me a hypocrite: I've started indiscriminately buying tea online as long as it's from an established vendor that allows Paypal. I still very much dislike…
92%… Ambootia Estate FTGFOP ~ By the Pound 5 Aug 201513 Dec 2015 In order that i might come to a better understanding of the subtleties that i keep being told are implicit in Darjeeling, today I'm brewing a different FTGFOP, namely Fairtraded…
Black… Organic Darjeeling 11 Mar 201520 Dec 2015 I may have told some of you I'd planned to take a road trip last weekend to Chicago and hunt for a special tea house to review for my blog's…
A2 Local… Ti Kuan Yin ~ Arbor Teas 29 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 For a few years now, Arbor Teas has been a popular choice in town (if not destination) for tea. They DO have a storefront, however, I have consistently failed to…
A2 Local… Darjeeling ~ Ridgways of London 22 Apr 201421 Dec 2015 Amusingly paralleling last week's post on Hardly Fair Trade, today I'm drinking a Darjeeling from Ridgways of London that bares the obliquitous "fair trade" sticker. One look at their "About…
Politics of Tea Hardly Fair Trade 15 Apr 20145 Nov 2014 So it's all well and good that i have a tea blog, but how you may ask, do I justify such conspicuous consumption of a product that often does not provide…