Category Archives: review

Red Jade

Posted on February 23, 2019 by northernteaist

These leaves landed on my tea table after they were included as a free sample in my February order with House of Tea.

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Østerlandsk Thehus Shou Pu-erh

Posted on February 20, 2019 by northernteaist

On the face of it this is a fairly ordinary shou, a good-but-not-great daily drinker.

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2010 Hai Lang Hui Wei Sheng

Posted on February 15, 2019 by northernteaist

I bought this 400 gram beeng back in October of last year over at House of Tea, and have spent the intervening period trying to find adequate time to sit down with it, and to get to know it.

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Espresso House Chai

Posted on February 10, 2019 by northernteaist

“Look, they have chai”, observed Teaist Junior, as we ordered in our local branch of Nordic coffee chain Espresso House.

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The Tea Library – “The Life of Tea: A Journey to the World’s Finest Teas”

Posted on January 30, 2019 by northernteaist

This book appeared on my tea-radar when a review of it was featured on the Friday Roundup, a regular article on Nicole Martin’s excellent blog “Tea For Me Please“.

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2006 Haiwan Lao Tong Zhi Zhuānchá

Posted on January 27, 2019 by northernteaist

This was another purchase from House of Tea. I have a soft spot for both tea-bricks (Zhuānchá) and the produce of the Haiwan tea factory, so once I clapped eyes on this baby a sale was always going to be … Continue reading →

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Oolong Yabukita

Posted on January 22, 2019 by northernteaist

This is the second part of a pair of posts detailing my experiences with two rather interesting teas from Japan that I came across while shopping over at House of Tea.

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Feng Huang Milan Dancong

Posted on January 19, 2019 by northernteaist

This is yet another tea that made its way to my tea table by virtue of it being included as a free 3 gram sample in a recent purchase at House of Tea.

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Kocha Yabukita

Posted on January 15, 2019 by northernteaist

I bought these leaves from perennial favourites House of Tea with Christmas present cash.

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The Four Long Lost Samples

Posted on January 11, 2019 by northernteaist

I was doing a bit of digital tidying up the other day, when I found a folder buried several levels down in my file system tree labelled “Samples – To Do“.

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