Clay and Leaves

Mrs. Teaist was away for the weekend, catching up with an old friend, when she glanced in a window, and happened to see a gaiwan.

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Cream by White2Tea

White2Tea Cream - wrapped front

The What

One of the criticisms often levelled at White2Tea is that they play their cards a little too close to their chests for some folks in the tea community, who want to know to the half metre where on the globe and at what altitude the leaves in their gaiwan were grown, as well as complete horoscopes and biographies for the farmer, his significant other, their pets, parents and siblings.

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Chocolate Shou Pu-erh

a cup of Chocolate Shou Pu-erh

The idea behind this experiment began to take shape after I read this article on Oolong Owl’s excellent blog about Tisano chocolate tea.

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Flora Tehus Copenhagen

Flora Tehus popped up on my tea-radar when they started following me on Instagram.

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What-cha Moonlight White Dragon Ball

What-cha Moonlight White Dragon Ball

I ran across this wonderful nugget of deliciousness on my first visit to What-cha.

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Canton Raw: Bu Lang 2011

Canton Raw Autumn 2011 Bu Lang - wrapped

The What

This 100g mini-beeng is part of the Canton Raw collection from Canton Tea Co.

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2010 Haiwan Lao Tong Sheng Fang Cha

2010 Haiwan Lao Tong Feng Sheng - wrapped

The What

I bought this 100 gram square brick (Fang Cha – 方茶) of sheng during one of my browsing sessions over at House of Tea.

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Danyun Fairtrade T-Project

Danyun Fairtrade - Imperial pu-erh dry leaf

Danyun Fairtrade – Imperial Pu-erh

The other week Mrs. Teaist came home with a present for me, a 100 gram packet of Pu-erh that she had picked up on her way home from work.

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What-cha 2016 Yong De Ripe

What-cha Yong De Ripe - wrapped

If you read enough tea blogs and keep up to date with developments on the tea scene via Steepster and the /r/tea subreddit then you could hardly fail to notice that UK based tea vendor What-cha has a growing reputation for excellent teas and superb customer service.

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2010 Qian Ye Hao Moonlight Beauty White

2010-qian-ye-hao-moonlight-beauty-white-wrapped

So, here it finally is, the long awaited post about the oft-mentioned, semi-legendary, Moonlight White.

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