Category: Tea Reviews

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Sencha Naturals Tropical Mango Green Tea Latte Mix – Tea Review

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Usually I’m pretty good about reviewing a tea early on, as in I’ll drink it a few times before I review it. I got this Tropical Mango Green Tea Latte mix from Sencha Naturals back at the Los Angeles Tea Festival in August 2014. The sample I tried at the festival was really good so I purchased a bag. Since then, I’ve been drinking up my bag of Mango Green Tea latte mix and I need to review this sucker before I drink it all! The ingredients on this green tea mix product is interesting – Organic Coconut Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Algae Flour, Organic… Continue reading, hoot!

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Spring 2013 Drunk on Red Sun Dried Feng Qing Black – Tea Review

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DRUNK ON RED! DRUNK ON RED! I’d be lying if I said I bought Spring 2013 Drunk on Red Sun-Dried Feng Qing for the description and not its sweet name. Who would pass up a tea called Drunk On Red? I’d get tea drunk on teal or purple if I could! This tea is a Spring 2013 first flush Feng Qing black tea that has been sun dried, then pressed into 100 gram cakes. There’s a few different years to choose from on Yunnan Sourcing (both yunnansourcing.us and yunnansourcing.com site – if you are in the US I suggest shopping at the… Continue reading, hoot!

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3 Leaf Tea’s Flavored Matchas – Tea Review

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Matcha seems to be getting really popular these days as I see it starting to be sold by many tea sellers. I love flavored matchas – I own a bunch of different flavors with a couple different tea sellers. I don’t often prepare matchas in the traditional whisk/chasen, despite owning the tools. I think bubble/boba tea and Starbucks Green Tea lattes taste so good to me, that I prefer to make matcha as a milk shake blended with ice and milk. With that said, I love a good flavored matchas, it’s a delicious treat. 3 Leaf Tea is a new tea… Continue reading, hoot!

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Jingmai Sheng Puer Spring 2013 from Wymm Tea

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I recently received a sweet sample pack from Wymm tea, a new online tea seller. Awesomely, Wymm Tea is also from Vancouver! Man I really to do a trip home as the tea scene in Vancouver must be killer! Anyways, Wymm Tea has a gorgeous website with plenty of information on their teas, good looking pu’er and pretty packaging! I decided to try their Jingmai, a raw/sheng from ancient tea trees, pressed Spring 2013. I’ve been noticing that I tend to really like raw Jing Mai pu’ers. Here is the sample packing from Wymm Tea – With samples inside wrapped in stamped… Continue reading, hoot!

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Kerikeri Tea Honeybush Chai – Tea Review

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When my mother in law was in New Calendonia last year, she brought me back tea! Interesting tea at that – KeriKeri Tea Honeybush Chai. What makes KeriKeri Tea organic’s Honeybush Chai unique is the ingredients – Organic honeybush, whole cloves, cardamon, ginger, cinnamon flakes and native New Zealand horopito pepper. That sounds spicy! Before I look up what horopito pepper tastes like, let’s sample the tea! Dry Leaf It is really hard to say something interesting about rooibos and honeybush leaves as it looks like wood chunks. So yeah, the dry leaf looks like wood bits in red, cream and dark… Continue reading, hoot!

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06 Bai Lin Congfu Black from Joseph Wesley black tea – Tea Review

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With my last Joseph Wesley black tea order I was stuck on what to get. I was purchasing a cup set that came with your choice of tea and choosing a tea was difficult – all their teas sounded awesome! I decided on 06 Bai Lin Congfu for its promise of caramel and cream notes. Creamy teas make me weak in the knees. Let’s check this tea out! Gorgeous sophisticated and modern packing as usual. The black tea is vacuum packed and once the seal is breached it is hard to fit the tea back in unless you drink about 2 or… Continue reading, hoot!

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Teatulia Oolong Tea – Tea Review

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A lot more bagged tea has been coming my way these days and I’m not sure why. Rest assured, it’s all been really good bagged tea! I do have some bagged teas in my collection (73 according to my tea collection spreadsheet) with a mix of old stuff from big brands at the grocery store to samples that happen to be in tea bag form. However, with all these really good bagged teas I’ve been getting lately, those grocery store bagged teas have been demoted from “I might drink this or give it away” to “to be used as tea paint”. So,… Continue reading, hoot!

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February White2tea Club – Bulang!

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February White2tea Club! If you haven’t been following my previous reviews for White2tea Club, it is a curated $29.99 monthly tea box. The teas are awesome quality with mostly pu’er, but also some oolongs and blacks. For this month the teas are two Bulang pu’er – 2012 Bulang Raw 100 gram mini cake and 15 gram sample of Spring Laochatuo from Bulang and an Orchid Dancong oolong sample to make this month less bulang crazy. I was super excited when I saw what I got this month from White2Tea. I’ve had bulang pu’er a few times, mostly stuff aged from late 2000s and… Continue reading, hoot!

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52 Teas Sampling and Kickstarter

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I have a couple really good looking flavored tea blends that I’ve been meaning to open and sample. S’mores Chai and Tiramisu Oolong! Very unique teas. 52 Teas have some really neat tea blends that I hope will continue. With that said, there’s a kickstarter going on for the 52 Teas Great Take Over, by the lovely LiberTeas at the SororiTea sisters! Man, I hope this kickstarter gets funded, I want that Maple Cheesecake Tie Kwan Yin! Anyways, the teas I have today aren’t for sale at the moment, though you can wishlist and request them to be reblended, or pledge… Continue reading, hoot!

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Eastern Beauty Oolong from Green Terrace Teas

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I love a good Oriental Beauty! Leaf Hoppers for the win! Let’s sample Green Terrace Teas’ Eastern Beauty Oolong, which is from Emei Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. Dry Leaf Eastern Beauty Oolong has a sweet fruity and bready scent. The leaf is smushed but has gold silver brown black and olive colors. Looking at the website, the tea looks full leaf. I wonder if my sample got rolled on in post? Steeping Instructions I used a gaiwan and steeped Eastern Beauty Oolong in 200F water after a quick rinse. I did 20 second infusions to start, increasing with each infusion. Tasting of Green… Continue reading, hoot!