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2015 Bancha Goishicha

Bancha Goishicha is a dark or post-fermented tea from Japan. This particular tea originates from Otoyo town, which lies in Kochi prefecture on Shikoku island, and was produced in February 2015.

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Canton Tea Co. Cooked Mini Beeng Cha

Here we have another one of Canton Tea Co.‘s line-up of cute little 100 gram mini-beengs.

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2014 Chawangpu Ban Payasi

Alistair of What-cha fame certainly gets his hands on some interesting teas, and this is one of them.

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Return of the Sevan

Just as I did last year, when we were at our Summer house on the Baltic I bought a 500 gram packet of Sevan’s Orange Pekoe grade Ceylon tea in the local supermarket.

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Notes From The Road – The Sunday Sheng Session

It was one of those oven hot July days that slowly unfold out of a truly faultless blue sky.

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On The Road Again

It’s that time of the year once more, when we flee all the aggravation of summer in the big city and set up camp at our summer house by the Baltic, where our only hard wired connection to the grid … Continue reading

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2001 Xia Guan Jia Ji

Yet another House of Tea purchase.

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Hangzhou Jiasheng Tea Co. – CPT7016

Let’s get the obvious out of the way before we go any further – this tea is never, ever, going to win any kind of award.

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Gopaldhara Red Thunder Gold

These leaves arrived on my tea table in the form of a generously sized 10 gram sample that was kindly included in a recent purchase I made over at the very highly recommended What-cha web shop.

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Canton Raw: Wu Jia Zhai 2012

This is one of Canton Tea Co.’s range of very nice 100 gram Single Mountain sheng Pu-erh mini-beengs.

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