Category: Tea Tasting
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2017 Qianliang Little Cubes Tea Tasting (Exquisite Leaves)
Tea session of Exquisite Leaves’ 2017 Qianliang Little Cubes. It’s one of the top quality dark teas (heicha) from Anhua in Hunan Province.
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Long Jing West Lake vs. Long Jing Ming Qian
Horizontal session of two Long Jing teas: Long Jing West Lake and Long Jing Ming Qian. Two samples of the same tea that come from different locations.
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The Thing Still Is ______ Tea Tasting (white2tea)
Tasting session of the white2tea club May tea! A Sheng Puer cake that will improve through ageing. The Thing Still Is ______!
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Nuzzle Diver Tea Tasting (Mei Leaf)
Mei Leaf’s Nuzzle Diver is a Sheng Puerh is all about a green creaminess. It feels like a green tea with a lot of depth to it.
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Tropical Treasures Ltd #1
Today’s session was about African teas. I got some samples from Specialty Tea Ltd and drank some Kilimanjaro black and Usambara green tea.
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Zhang Ping Shui Xian Floral Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
I tasted the Zhang Ping Shui Xian Floral, which is an unusual oolong tea that was pressed into small bricks and I was pleasantly surprised by the combination of floral sweetness and honey.
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Qing Xin Gan Zi Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
A subtle Taiwanese green tea made from the Qing Xin Gan Zi cultivar. This results in an interesting combination of sweetness, roasted nuts and green flavours.
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Silver Needle Tea Tasting (Mei Leaf)
I opened a 2017 batch of Mei Leaf’s Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) and was rewarded with a subtle sweetness of meadow flowers and dry grass.
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Darjeeling Gopaldhara Maharaja Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
A second Flush Darjeeling oolong tea that tastes like a black tea with a slice of lemon. Darjeeling Gopaldhara Maharaja is an interesting tea that offers a combination of pleasant flavours.
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Santikhiri Four Seasons Oolong Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
Tasting session of a high mountain oolong tea from Thailand. The Santikhiri Four Seasons Oolong proved to be a complex floral tea with green notes to it.
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Lu An Gua Pian Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)
Lu An Gua Pian (or Melon Seed) is a delicious green tea with vegetal notes that transform into a soft creaminess. It is Spring in your teapot.
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Spring Break Session #7: Organic Milk Oolong (Curious Tea)
Tasting an organic and unflavoured milk oolong from Curious Tea. It’s a subtle but really delicious oolong tea from Taiwan.
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Spring Break Session #6: Fujian Baroque (Adagio Teas)
Pleasantly surprised by this black tea from Fujian Province. Sweet cherries with some woodsy notes as well.
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Spring Break Session #5: 2015 Wild Tianjian (Exquisite Leaves)
2015 Wild Tianjian proves to be a warming tea that goes back and forth between smoked salmon and smoked pinewood. Definitely a top quality dark tea from Anhua.
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Spring Break Session #4: Sencha Ariake (Palais des Thés)
Tea session of one of the smoothest Sencha green teas from Japan. A steamed green tea with nuttiness and a vegetal flavour profile. Perfect introduction to the joys of Sencha teas.