Yunnan Golden Downy Pekoe

Yunnan downy pekoe - dry leaf

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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Expedition Lübeck

Expedition Lubeck - teekontor_exterior

Whenever we’re out and about travelling, we always keep our eyes peeled for tea shops to pop into.

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Hong Ya

hong ya - dry leaf

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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Yamamotoyama Genmaicha and Sencha Teabags

This was one of those spur-of-the-moment purchases.

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Silver Sipdown

silver sipdown - dry leaf

I was running out of stash storage space, more specifically tea caddies.

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Fellow Stagg EKG Kettle

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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End Of A Tuo

End of a Tuo - clump

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 toppling over.

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2013 Jing Gu Xiao Fang Zhuan

Jing Gu Xiao Fang Zhuan - wrapped

This is the fourth and final review of the shou Pu-erhs I recently bought from Danish teahouse Simply Tea.

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Yunnan Yin Zhen

Yin Zhen Yunnan - dry leaf

This was the other half of the pair of white teas I recently bought from House of Tea.

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Georgia Wild Forest White

Georgia Wild Forest White - dry leaf

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.

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