Category Archives: review

White2Tea 2016 Sister Brother – Part 1

Just the other day I was sat at our kitchen table, gazing out to sea, when I got a sudden craving for a sheng session.

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Ren Shen Oolong

I bought this tea back in May, at the same time as the Bergamot Oolong I wrote about in June.

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Bergamot Oolong

I suppose that once I’d consciously dedicated a new pot exclusively to Oolongs I was subconsciously going to be biased towards that class of tea the next time tea and cash were going to be exchanged.

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Copenhagen Sparkling Tea – Blå

“Found something for you on the way home from work”, said Mrs. Teaist. “Wondered if it might come in handy for Thursday”.

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David Rio Orca Spice Chai

Mrs. Teaist was on the way home from work when she spotted this new-to-us instant chai, and decided on a whim to give it a whirl.

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Gan Zhi Taiwan Green

I received this tea as a free 4 gram sample that was kindly included in my May order over at House of Tea.

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Oi Ocha

Say what you like about our local supermarket, (and I do have plenty to say, and not all of it complementary), but somebody there has their finger on the pulse.

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Kenya Rhino

This tea was ordered from House of Tea at the same time as the Georgian Gruzia Tjakvi I looked at in an earlier post, and for broadly the same reasons. I was in the middle of a black tea jag, … Continue reading

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Tai Mu Long Zhu

Mrs. Teaist decided that she needed a bit more variety in her tea drinking. More specifically, although she was still enjoying her early morning pot of Rize, she was getting a little tired of the same thing in the evening.

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Gruzia Tjakvi

For a while now, I’ve been enjoying black teas more than I have been for quite some time, and that coupled with a strange impulse to meander down tea-roads less travelled has lead me to, amongst others, these leaves.

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