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Tag Archives: black tea
What-cha English Breakfast
This tea arrived on my tea table in the form of a 7 gram sample that was kindly included in a recent purchase I made over at What-cha.
Fortnum & Mason’s Yunnan
Amazingly, despite many trips to London over the years, we had never “done” Fortnum and Mason’s tea department.
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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, Fortnum & Mason, hong cha, red tea, Yunnan
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Beijing8 Organic Lapsang Souchong
I came across this tea at a supermarket housed in a shopping mall on the outskirts of town.
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Tagged black tea, lapsang souchong, organic tea, supermarket tea
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Yu Chi Shan Cha
Spoiler alert – this tea is incredibly good.
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Tagged black tea, hong cha, red tea, Taiwanese tea, tea, teaism, Yu Chi Shan Cha
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This and That
The spoon scraped hard against the bottom of the caddy. The “cheap but good enough as a palate cleanser and general digestive system degreasant” Golden Sail brand shou Pu-erh was all gone. Oh.
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Tagged beeng, black tea, bowl tea, Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, Pu-erh, red tea, ripe Pu-erh, shou, Taiwanese tea, tea, teaism
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Sevan’s Ceylon Saves The Day…
As I gazed forlornly into the two open tea caddies it dawned on me that I might have miscalculated somewhat.
Fujian Tulou Old Tea
Mrs. Teaist bought this tea for me during a recent trip to Stockholm. She found it at Grace Tea House’s “everything must go” closing down sale.
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Tagged aged tea, black tea, Chinese tea, Fujian, hei cha, lao cha, old tea, tea, teaism, Tulou, yellow tea
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Castleton Nirvana First Flush
Bit of a curiosi-tea, this one. It’s a blended tea, but from a single estate, the Castleton estate, located in the Kurseong district of Darjeeling.
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Tagged black tea, Castleton estate, Darjeeling, First Flush, Indian tea, Nirvana, tea, teaism
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Train, IT, & Tea
In the words of the song I’m on the road again, back in Stockholm for Easter.
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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, Green gunpowder, green tea, Stockholm, tea, travelling
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Woeful Weekend Weather? Take Terrific Tea!
The weather can’t make its mind up. It’s oscillating wildly between prolonged bouts of rain and intermittent snow showers.
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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, foul weather, green tea, Longjing, Oolong, Pu-erh, tarry souchong, tea, teaism, West Lake, winter, Yunnan Gold
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