Tag Archives: Taiwanese tea

My Top 10 Teas For 2019

This is yet another post inspired by Eric’s blog One Man’s Tea Journey (if I’m not careful he’s going to start charging consultancy fees), which was in turn inspired by Marco’s blog Steap’d.

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Taiwan Red Jade White

This is one of the two teas that made up my late August order with House of Tea. Like that other set of leaves, this one initially appealed to me because it linked back to a tea I’d written about … Continue reading

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Hong Shui

Looking back over my recent tea purchasing history it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn’t placed an order with Stockholm based House of Tea for several months.

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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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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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Shan Lin Shi Hong Cha – Part 2

Previously, on “Diary of a Northern Teaist…” – click here to read part 1 of this post…

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Shan Lin Shi Hong Cha – Part 1

This was yet another tea that was included as a free sample in a recent order I placed over at House of Tea.

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Red Jade

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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GABA Oolong

It doesn’t seem that long ago that everyone seemed to be talking about GABA Oolongs in the teaosphere.

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