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Atlas Tea Club feat. Nepal Teas

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Interested in expanding your tea experience by trying teas from all around the world? Looking for a gift for a tea lover that has it all? I honestly wished I thought of this tea club – every month Atlas Tea Club sends you tea grown from a different country. No ordering from many different tea vendors from around the world, nor waiting for long international shipping (don’t get me started how bad international shipping has been lately), as Atlas Tea Club is based in the US. As well as trying teas from around the world, Atlas Tea Club lets you… Continue reading, hoot!

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Yunnan Gold Tip and Keemun Maofeng Black from Hence Tea

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Today I am feeling like black tea. I had a busy August and an even busier September is here, so I need to sort my new black teas into either my morning lazy style, gongfu pick me up, or afternoon tea snack time. Hence Tea sent me two more black teas to try – Yunnan Gold Tip and Keemun Maofeng Black. I previously wrote about Hence Tea’s Songluo Black. Yunnan Gold Tip from Hence Tea This Yunnan Gold Tip has the scent of sweet canned cherries. For both black teas, I went with gongfu style with boiling water, using a… Continue reading, hoot!

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2021 Bull Noir Dianhong from Bitterleaf Tea

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2021 Bull Noir Dianhong is an experimental spring Yiwu Yunnan black tea with machine roasting as opposed to sun dried. This tea from Bitterleaf is the same as their Yiwu blend but also a test to see how the black tea develops for future teas. I snagged a tin as I love a good experimental tea and Bitterleaf Tea’s Year of the Zodiac Yiwus tend to be reliably delicious and affordable. At this time, Bull Noir is sold out, but I wanted to get my thoughts on this tea out there. Leaf and Steeping Method Bull Noir has huge spacious… Continue reading, hoot!

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Songluo Black and Shou Mei from Hence Tea

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Today is a new tea company review – Hence Tea. They are based out of Los Angeles and carry Chinese Teas. The teas I have for review are their Songluo Black and Shou Mei White. Songluo Black from Hence Tea This black is from Songluo Mountain, which is in the Southern Anhui Province of China, between Keemun and Huangshan. Songluo Black’s leaves have a fruity and honey scent. For the first round of this black tea, I went gongfu style, 1gram per 15ml leaf to vessel ratio, steeped with boiling water. After a rinse, the leaves smell grapes and floral.… Continue reading, hoot!

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Chilai High Mountain Black Tea from Mountain Stream Teas

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I almost wasn’t going to write about Mountain Stream teas’ Chilai High Mountain black tea. I was tucking into this tea for breakfast, delegated as interesting tea drinking as it will be sold out by the time my review could be posted. At first infusion, I discovered this tea is wonderful and needs a review, so I redid my schedule. Chilai High Mountain Black is a QinXin cultivar tea from Summer 2020. Not too often one encounters high mountain tea processed as black, but also like Taiwanese oolong and white tea – their black tea is amazing. Leaf and Steeping… Continue reading, hoot!

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2020 Foxdown Black Tea from White2tea

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I’ve always had my eye on White2tea’s 2020 Foxdown black tea, but I was waiting for the next season of teas. However, it was announced the cakes were in low stock, so I panicked purchased a cake blind along with some other goodies. At this time of writing, there are only Foxdown minis left. 2020 Foxdown is a Yunnan, bud heavy, sun dried black tea, promised to be malty daily drinker. Leaf and Steeping Method What a gorgeous golden bud cake with a malty dark scent. For gongfu style, I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size,… Continue reading, hoot!

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2020 Sentinel Black Tea from White2tea

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White2tea’s 2020 Sentinel black tea was highly recommended to me, so during a previous order, I purchased a sample. 2020 Sentinel is an old arbor large leaf varietal that is sun dried. Leaf and Steeping Method The leaf has an apricot and honey scent. The compression is on the tighter size here, but I also got the beenghole sample. I used around 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size. Once boiling water was introduced to the leaves, Sentinel scent goes more cherries and apricots. Tasting of White2tea’s 2020 Sentinel Black Tea First Infusion: 2020 Sentinel Black tea starts… Continue reading, hoot!

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2021 February White2Tea Club feat: 200X Failcorp Shou Puer

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White2tea club time! For the 2021 February White2tea club, we got an aged shou, black tea, and a sheng with a little age.  200X Failcorp Shou Puer 200X Failcorp a mystery warehouse/auction find, with the best guess on age, with maybe Jingmai or Bulang material. White2tea has this cake priced at $68 for 357 grams (at the time of writing). The leaves smell like I am working on the garden – lots of dirt and mulch scent – like a dirty rooibos. I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size, steeped in boiling water. After a rinse,… Continue reading, hoot!

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2020 Mall Ninja Dojo and Horse Girl Clique from White2Tea

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Today’s review is a set of white and black teas from White2tea. Mall Ninja Dojo and Horse Girl Clique are the same puer and sun-dried material from Menghai but processed differently. I purchased samples of both as this will be a fun tea tasting to see the same material in different ways. I enjoyed the names of these teas as they brought back so many memories of the horse girls at school (gosh don’t get in a fight with them talking English or Western saddles) and the characters at the mall sword store. White2tea’s 2020 Mall Ninja Dojo White Tea… Continue reading, hoot!

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2020 December Old Ways Tea Club

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This is the second box of the Old Ways Tea Club! In the 2020 December Old Ways Tea Club is 6 teas. I am happy this club is every two months, as it gives me plenty of time to drink it all! Also included is a bag of dried persimmons. It was very hard for me to keep this around long enough to photograph! The majority of the December Old Ways Tea club is made up of 8 gram packets, so I used 8 grams in a 100ml gaiwan. The Hongcha is in 5 gram packets, which I used a… Continue reading, hoot!