Category: Tea Tasting
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Green Tea Kilimanjaro Tea Tasting (Tropical Treasures Ltd.)
Tropical Treasures’ Green Tea Kilimanjaro is a tea that has pleasant flavours deep beneath the surface. It’s perfect to forget everything for a while.
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Old Master Dong Ding Tea Tasting (Mountain Stream Teas)
Mountain Stream Teas’ Old Master Dong Ding is a tea that offers different flavours each infusion. Roasted honey, subtle caramel and a fruity sweetness.
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Darjeeling Gopaldhara Sencha Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
The Darjeeling Gopaldhara Sencha is a green tea from Mirik Valley in Darjeeling. Its smoky character with notes of tobacco make this an unusual green tea.
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26 Hour Roast Milan Maocha Tea Tasting (white2tea)
The 26 Hour Roast Milan Maocha from white2tea’s March 2019 tea club is deep. Warm honey in combination with a fruity and floral sweetness.
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2018 Gong Ting Ripe Stuffed Mini Citrus (The Tea Guru)
Trying the 2018 Gong Ting Ripe Stuffed Mini Citrus was a clear win. Musty notes of citrus that add to the already deep complexity of this tea.
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2018 Red Water Oolong (The Tea Guru)
The 2018 Red Water Oolong from The Tea Guru is a highly oxidised tea from Taiwan. It combines buttery maltiness and sweetness with floral notes in between.
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Wen Shan Bao Zhong Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
Wen Shan Bao Zhong is a green oolong tea from Taiwan. It’s a crossbreed between a fresh green and a floral oolong as it offers the best of both worlds.
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White2tea Club July 2019: Unsmoked Lapsang Souchong
Tasting unsmoked Lapsang Souchong teas from white2tea’s 2019 July tea club. Traditional, Fruit Bomb and Herby Lapsang Souchongs are definitely not the same.
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Lu Yan Xiang Tea Tasting (Wudong Tea)
Lu Yan Xiang or magnolia flower fragrance is a Dan Cong oolong tea from Chaozhou Province. The buttery magnolias will take you to faraway flower gardens.
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Yunnan Silver Needle vs. Zhejiang Silver Needle
Despite both being silver needle tea, there are major differences between silver needle from Yunnan and silver needle from Zhejiang Province. How can one and the same tea be so different?
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Makinohara Benifuki Oolong Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
The Makinohara Benifuki oolong is a tea that is unlike any other oolong tea I have drunk before. It’s a green oolong with a vegetal flavour profile in combination with floral notes.
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Yakushima Sencha Tea Tasting (Nio Teas)
Yakushima sencha is a Japanese green tea that promises to be sweet. It’s a typical Japanese green that tastes like a fresh breeze on a hot Summer’s day.
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Hai Lang Hao As You Like Tea Tasting (The Tea Guru)
The 2010 Hai Lang Hao As You Like is a shou Puerh tea that contains older material. Ageing has softened the sharp edges to make it a perfect every day shou.
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2019 Green Hype Tea Tasting (white2tea)
The 2019 Green Hype was featured in white2tea’s tea club for June 2019. It’s a sheng Puerh tea with plenty of aged maocha. Is it the perfect daily sheng?
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GuShu NaKa 2016 Tea Tasting (Pu-erh.sk)
A GuShu NaKa from 2016 is a Sheng Puerh tea that combines bitter and sweet. The sweetness goes back and forth between the different steeps.