Organic Superfine Dragon Well Long Jing Green Tea from Teavivre
Long Jing and my desire to find out more about it was what brought me to steepster in the first place, because of this it will always have a special place in my heart. I've been drinking green teas all...
View ArticleYunLanXuan Lapsang Souchong from YunLanXuan
This tea makes for a nice robust everyday tea. It is not as sweet as some of the new style non smokey Lapsang's I've had and that doesn't really bring out those lovely sweeter molasses/honey caramel...
View ArticleXueqing Style Spring Sunshine (Rizhao) Homegrown Organic Green Tea 2014 from...
This is one of the green teas I received yesterday! It will probably take me a little while to figure out my preferred parameters but so far I prefer less leaf, higher temperatures and shorter steeps....
View ArticleFengqing Raw Pu-erh Cake Tea 2006 from Teavivre
This tea provided a pleasant accompaniment to my afternoon. The dry leaf smelled of a powdery chocolate smell with a hint of sugar and raisin as well as a hint of sweet aging straw. The tea never...
View ArticlePapaya and Orange from Bonomelli
Despite all the potentially tart ingredients included, this tea smells fantastic. It smells like the small dark rounder papayas that have the darker orange flesh and that taste sweeter, with just a...
View ArticleTiger Assam from Andrews & Dunham Damn Fine Tea
This is a good Assam blend, that would be especially nice for someone who likes the fruity, malty spectrum of Assam's, and that like to take their tea with milk. It has a fasir bit of tannins and...
View ArticleAssam Mangalam Second Flush FTGFOP1 from Zen Tea
This is another tea I've had to a while. The dry leaf has brown, black and grey leaves , with scattered golden tips. I used one heaping TSP/225ml. After 3 min the tea brews up to deep mahogany brew....
View ArticleDark Roast TieGuanYin from The Mountain Tea co
Buoyed by *Dexter's* glowing review of this tea, I finally drank this tea last night. It has quite a lovely rich, warm flavour. The first steep tasted a little like Chinese grocery store oolong in the...
View ArticleOLD VERSION - Manistee Moonrise - v93 (2011-4/2014) from Whispering Pines Tea...
This is a tea that benefits from a little exta leaf and a slightly stronger steeping time than i use with tea, but once i discovered this i really do like it. The base has a bright piny minty top note...
View ArticleBlack Gold from Mandala Tea
This tea is a lovely mix of sweet notes and cocoa, with light floral notes, a hint of orange and a bright nature hidden under the warm sweet tones. The dry leaf is a roughly wound blade with silver...
View ArticleRed-Tailed Hawk from Andrews & Dunham Damn Fine Tea
The tea smells fabulous with sweet potato,cocoa, the brighter tones of malt and the spicy tones of gardenia, sharper tasting sweet berries and a touch of honey. The dry leaf is mostly chocolate brown...
View ArticleFleurilège from Dammann Freres
I found myself scoping cadeau-deco-vendome ( A Dammann reseller) so I figured that this is as good a time as any to dig into the samples that *Sil* sent me. This tea smells like butter, roasted...
View ArticleClassical Tea: Finest FBOP High Grown Black Tea from Rhino Teas
The pretty mahogany coloured broth of this tea yields a tea that has a good dose of malt and biscuit, joined with plum, a light floral spice and a tone that is slightly nutty in scent. The tea has a...
View ArticleRed Biluo single bud from Qingquan Yu Ming - Han Xiang Ecological Tea...
Opening up the bag, i was greeted by the rich scent of cocoa and molasses, which eminated from the pile of golden, downy, corkscrews of the biluochun black tea contained within. They looked like this:...
View ArticleYi Mei Ren from Yunnan Sourcing
This tea was a pleasant confection of fruit beginning with longan dominating over a plum note and than switching dominance during the later steeps, consistent cocoa notes, butter caramel, that morphed...
View ArticleBlack Grape and Strawberry from Bonomelli
This tea is kind of interesting in the brewed leaf I smell the apple, and grape with a touch of strawberry, while I taste apple, grape, hibiscus, elderberry and strawberry, with the liquorice...
View ArticleThe de Vendome from Nina's Paris
The dry tea scent reminds me of sweet tarts, tart and sugarybwith that tone that separates them from rockets. Brewed on the other hand this smells like my grapefruit puerh that I got from big-active (...
View ArticleBulgare from Dammann Freres
To be quite honest I didn't find myself reaching for this very much as a hot tea, I think it was because of how the orange interacted with the base in such as way that it took away from the raspberry...
View ArticleAssam TGFOP from CJay Tea
When I first got this tea In was a little dissappointed as I quite like their English Breakfast and I love their Chai, but this tea when I brewed it my normal Assam way at about 92/3 min was relatively...
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