A blog about tea.
Category: Tea Tasting
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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.
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Spring Break Session #3: Xue Da Wu Ye (Wudong Teas)
Tasting a rather unknown Dan Cong oolong tea proves to be the best idea I’ve had in a long time! Buttery asparagus with floral notes: perfect combination!
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Spring Break Session #2: Genmai Cha (Adagio Teas)
An atypical green tea from Japan. The combination of tea and popped rice offers a unique flavour profile. Do you like popcorn?
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Spring Break Session #1: 2018 Charlie (White2tea)
Tea tasting of white2tea’s January 2019 tea club tea. Woody and earthy flavours in combination with medicinal notes.
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Spring Break Tea Tasting Sessions
I got the amazing idea of doing a tea tasting every day during Spring break. This post is an overview of the different teas I tried.