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Read more: 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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Read more: 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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Read more: 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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Read more: 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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Read more: Tea Sommelier: A Step-by-step Guide Book Review
Tea Sommelier: A Step-by-step Guide is the perfect book if you want to improve your tea sessions. It offers practical guidelines to fully experience tea.
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Read more: 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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Read more: 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.
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Read more: 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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Read more: 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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Read more: 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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Read more: Yellow Tea
After buying some Junshan Yin Zhen, I thought it would be interesting to find out what yellow tea is exactly. Read this post to read all about it!
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Read more: 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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Read more: 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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Read more: 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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Read more: 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.
