Tea Tasting

Silver needle mei leaf tea adventures

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.

Darjeeling Gopaldhara Maharaja Curiois Tea Tea adventures

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.

Santikhiri Four Seasons Oolong curious tea tea adventures

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.

Lu an gua pian Curious Tea tea adventures

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.

Organic Milk Oolong curious tea tea adventures

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.

Fujian Baroque Adagio teas

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.

Wild Tianjian Exquisite Leaves tea adventures

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.

Sencha ariake palais des thes tea adventures

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.

Xue Da Wu Ye Wudong Tea tea adventures

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!

Genmai cha adagio tea adventures

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?

2018 Charlie white2tea

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.

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.

Gui fei oolong curious tea

Gui Fei Oolong Tea Tasting(Curious Tea)

I did a tea tasting of a Gui Fei oolong. Amazing tea that combines floral, woody and honey notes into something special.

Gongjian Fu Brick Exquisite Leaves

2017 Gongjian Fu Brick Tea Tasting (Exquisite Leaves)

I did a tasting of one of Exquisite Leaves’ teas. Delicious smoked pinewood in the 2017 Gongjian Fu Brick!

Yuchi Assamica Tea Tasting (Curious Tea)

Tea tasting of the black tea in Curious Tea’s January subscription box. What did I think about the Yuchi Assamica black tea?