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Yunnan Golden Downy Pekoe
This is the first review of one of the teas that made up the double digit haul that Mrs. Teaist brought back from the German city of Lübeck recently.
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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, downy pekoe, gaiwan, gong-fu cha, hong cha, tea from Yunnan, teaism
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Expedition Lübeck
Whenever we’re out and about travelling, we always keep our eyes peeled for tea shops to pop into.
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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, green tea, Indian tea, Lübeck, Nepalese tea, New Zealand tea, Oolong, sheng Pu-erh, shou Pu-erh, Tea shop, teaism, white tea
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Hong Ya
This was a free 3 gram sample that was kindly included in a recent purchase I made over at House of Tea.
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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, Fuding, Fujian, hong cha, tea, tea samples, teaism
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Yamamotoyama Genmaicha and Sencha Teabags
This was one of those spur-of-the-moment purchases.
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Tagged genmaicha, green tea, Japanese tea, kyusu, Sencha, teabag, teaism, Yamamotoyama
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Silver Sipdown
I was running out of stash storage space, more specifically tea caddies.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Silver Needle, sipdown challenge, tea, teaism, white tea
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Fellow Stagg EKG Kettle
I was lucky enough to receive this wonderful (oh, erm..spoilers…) kettle as a Father’s Day present.
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Tagged EKG kettle, Fellow, Stagg, tea, teaism, variable temperature kettle
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End Of A Tuo
7:45 am. Early November. The day was flat and motionless, in that peculiar late Autumn way. You could just sense that the season was running out of energy, like a child’s spinning top when it starts to wobble crazily before … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, Pu-erh, raw Pu-erh, sheng Pu-erh, tea, Tuo cha
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2013 Jing Gu Xiao Fang Zhuan
This is the fourth and final review of the shou Pu-erhs I recently bought from Danish teahouse Simply Tea.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, Fang Zhuan, gong-fu cha, shou Pu-erh, tea, tea brick, teaism
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Yunnan Yin Zhen
This was the other half of the pair of white teas I recently bought from House of Tea.
Georgia Wild Forest White
Physics, more specifically Newton’s third law, tells us that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and that’s just as true for tea as it is anything else.
Northern Teaist 