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A Day In The Life of an Incorrigible Tea Fiend
This post was inspired by a similar one over at Eric’s blog One Man’s Tea Journey.
Havukal White
This is yet another tea from the Lübeck haul. Mrs. Teaist ran across these leaves at Tee Gschwendner.
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Tagged Havukal tea estate, Indian tea, tea, teaism, Tee Gschwendner, white tea
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2019 House of Tea Lincang Old Tree Sheng
Late November, and once again I was browsing the webshop of one of my regular dealers, House of Tea, with a few pennies in the tea buying purse screaming to be let out to play.
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Tagged Chinese tea, gong-fu cha, House of Tea, raw Pu-erh, sheng Pu-erh, tea, teaism
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Tian Mu Qing Ding
This is the second review of teas from the Lübeck haul, and the first look at some of the leaves Mrs. Teaist scored for at Lübecker Teekontor.
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Tagged Chinese tea, gong-fu cha, green tea, Lübecker Teekontor, tea, teaism, Tian Mu Qing Ding
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Hong Ya
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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Tagged black tea, Chinese tea, Fuding, Fujian, hong cha, tea, tea samples, teaism
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Silver Sipdown
I was running out of stash storage space, more specifically tea caddies.
Posted in tea diary
Tagged Chinese tea, Silver Needle, sipdown challenge, tea, teaism, white tea
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Fellow Stagg EKG Kettle
I was lucky enough to receive this wonderful (oh, erm..spoilers…) kettle as a Father’s Day present.
Posted in review, teaware
Tagged EKG kettle, Fellow, Stagg, tea, teaism, variable temperature kettle
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End Of A Tuo
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, Pu-erh, raw Pu-erh, sheng Pu-erh, tea, Tuo cha
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2013 Jing Gu Xiao Fang Zhuan
This is the fourth and final review of the shou Pu-erhs I recently bought from Danish teahouse Simply Tea.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, Fang Zhuan, gong-fu cha, shou Pu-erh, tea, tea brick, teaism
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If You Go Down To The Woods Today…
It was fairly warm and more or less sunny, and faced with the knowledge that as we head into the Autumn and the back end of the year days like this are going to come along increasingly less frequently, we … Continue reading
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