Je t'Aime from Nina's Paris
From a far this tea smells like a caramel pudding my aunt made when I was a kid. On the other hand up close it smells a little like those caramel rum lifesavers ( do they even make those anymore?). It...
View ArticleImperial Gold Needle Yunnan Black Tea from Yunnan Sourcing
This tea reminds me a little of pain au chocolate, or at least a pâte sucrée dusted with hot chocolate powder. It has really has good notes of chocolate and honeyed butter pastry for at least the first...
View ArticleOrganic Lopchu Bai Mu Dan from Sassy Teas
I was excited to find this tea locally as I love the black teas from this estate but had never seen other styles of tea available commercially. Lopchu teas tend to be kind of unique as the majority of...
View ArticleRed Queen Cupcake from Butiki Teas
This is a really nice rich, deep, strawberry and chocolate noted tea. It is especially nice as many strawberry teas use light bases, whereas this one is rich and dense and malty. The flavouring and the...
View ArticleFour Season Spring Oolong from Mountain Tea
This is an oolong that may appeal to lovers of light flavoured Tieguanyin and those who like sweet lightly floral Oolong's. It lacks that biting ting that I appreciate in floral green Oolong's, but it...
View ArticleRizhao Black Tea from Yeah Stick Tea
I'm thoroughly enjoying this sweet roasty tea, while preparing for a 4 day trip up north. It will be fun but crazy, as at some point there will be about 20 of us there. This tea has dark shiny curled...
View ArticleChocolate Caramel Black from Simpson & Vail
This tea reminds me a little of Della Terra's Eight Candles with a punchier base tea, and a little bitterness provided by both the base and the chocolate notes. I think it's because the vanilla in the...
View ArticleGlendale Estate Twirl Nilgiri from Capital Tea Ltd.
Wow, this handmade tea is special! Incredibly complex it has the bright light citrusy, top notes of many darjeeling's, a bright green floral mixed with a faint eucalyptus menthol (possibly from the...
View ArticleRandom Steepings from Various Artists
2 parts cocoa nibs 2 parts sour cherry tisane 1 part rooibos chai Too much cherry tisane it overpowers the cocoa and the spices. I'm not sure if I would want too much more spice, maybe a little more,...
View ArticleStrawberry Justice from Herbal Infusions Tea Co.
This tea has a very nice ripe to over ripe strawberry taste, with a touch of cream. Simple and well balanced flavouring. As others have noted it could use a different base. After 3 minutes at about...
View ArticleJinggu "Golden Strand" Pure Bud Yunnan Black tea * Spring 2013 from Yunnan...
These pretty, downy, medium large, slightly copper tinged golden buds, smell of smoke insense, cocoa, fruit, and powdered sugar. They are pretty resilient beings as even with my modified version of...
View ArticleNahorhabi Full-Leaf Assam from Harney & Sons
This bright, brisk and elegant tea was my morning cup today. It is a really beautiful tea to look at with a generous scattering of golden cooper downy tips among its dark brown leaves. The tea itself...
View ArticleChristmas (Rois Mages) from Kusmi Tea
Currently, I am suffering from allergies and was craving something a little spicy to get the annoying buzzy feeling out of my ears and throat, so spice it is! *JustJames* sent me a bit of this around...
View ArticleThé sur la Lune from Nina's Paris
This tea certainly has a breadier, maltier and less sweet base tea than Nina's other black teas I've had. It gives the tea a certain density and takes the tea from being a spring/summer tea to a year...
View ArticleBerubeula Estate Ceylon OP1 from Capital Tea Ltd.
I've had this cupboard for a while. The first few times I had it I think I overleafed or over steeped it as I did not experience the delicious fruitiness and spice that I am getting today. Today after...
View ArticleBai Lin Gong Fu - Fujian Black Tea - Spring 2013 from Norbu Tea
I've been sipping on this tea all morning and it's still going strong. The dry tea scent promises cocoa, a roasted note and a grainy bready note. These notes do appear in the brewed tea but the grainy...
View ArticleYinhao Black Tea from Yixiang Tea Factory Of Fuan City
I've come to see Tan Yang teas as kind of a geographical designation like VQA with wine, with most of the teas grown in the area named that way except for the Lapsang Souchong, the teas grown from the...
View ArticleNova Scotia Blue from The Tea Brewery
In mid summer, while I worked in the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve tracking Black Bears, we would reach a point where half the bears would dissapear from their home ranges as they left in search of...
View ArticleAssam #8 from Tealux
Not really a detailed note, but more a reminder to myself. Short steeps really bring out the fruity notes of this tea, I think I prefer it this way.
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