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Vintage Black from The Persimmon Tree – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Vintage Black is a black tea blend of Nilgiri and Yunnan golden buds. This tea is from The Persimmon Tree, online tea seller based in Southern California. More black teas! The Persimmon Tree certainly has quite a nice line of black teas that a tea lover should find something they love! Todays tea is a blend of different black teas, Nilgiri and Yunnan golden buds. I personally love yunnan gold tipped teas for their yummy creamy tea notes. Dry Leaf Vintage Black has a fragrant dry leaf that smells like raisins and earth. The appearance, hard to see in my photo, is a mix… Continue reading, hoot!

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Keemun Black Tea from Little Red Cup Tea co – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Keemun Black tea is an organic, fair trade black tea from the Jiangxi Province of China. This tea is sold by Little Red Cup Tea co., online seller of traditional loose leaf teas that are also sustainable, certified organic and fair trade. This tea seller is based in Maine, USA. Dry Leaf Not the most exciting dry leaf appearance, Keemun Black tea looks like tight black sticks of tea. I bet you black tea drinkers are drooling! A little bit of a fruity scent from the leaf. Steeping Instructions I followed Little Red Cup Tea co’s brewing guidelines of 200F for 2 to… Continue reading, hoot!

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Nonpareil Yunnan Dian Hong from Teavivre – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Nonpareil Yunnan Dian Hong is a top grade Red Black tea from Teavivre, online seller of Chinese teas. Dry Leaf This particular Nonpareil Yunnan Dian Hong was harvested in March 2013, but most interestingly from oolong trees. The dry leaf here is interesting: wirey, thin ribbons of twisted black tea with the odd brown tip. The scent of Nonpareil Yunnan Dian Hong is quite strong, filling my kitchen with the scent of floral of fruit. Steeping Instructions Teavivre has excellent steeping instructions, and always includes western style steeping as well as gong fu. I’ll be doing gong fu steeping today with my gaiwan. With that… Continue reading, hoot!

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Lapsang Souchong from The Persimmon Tree – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Lapsang Souchong is an organic tea smoked over pine needles. This unique tasting black tea is sold by The Persimmon Tree, a California online tea seller. Alright Tea Peeps, I’ve never had a straight up Lapsang Souchong before. So far I’ve had Lapsang Souchong buried in campfire smokey tea blends. Even in blends, I quickly deduct that crazy smokey flavor as a Lapsang Souchong. I felt it was time for me to try Lapsang Souchong for the first time straight up, especially since I got a tea blend with Lapsang Souchong I’m planning to review later this week. Dry Leaf Opening the tin… Continue reading, hoot!

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Mango Spiced Chai Tea from Hula Girl – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Mango Spiced Chai Tea is a black tea chai mix sold by Hula Girl. I bought this tea mix from Hilo Hattie when I was in Hawaii, however it looks like you can buy from Hula Girl The Store online, or from Amazon.com. Trip to Hawaii not required! I got this out of desperation as early into my tours of Hawaii, I didn’t see any loose leaf tea, just the bagged stuff. I thought the promise of mango flavor sounded really neat for a chai. I used to drink, I think Tazo Chai Concentrate mix, but moved onto loose leaf chai… Continue reading, hoot!

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Exclusive Lupicia Hawaii Original Tea Blends Collection – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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With my recent cruise to Hawaii, I was able to snag the entire Lupicia Hawaii Original Blends collection at Lupicia Honolulu. The Lupicia Hawaii Original Tea Blends gift boxes are quite lovely – the tins are super cute and beautifully packaged! Each tin has 20 grams of tea, just enough to sample each blend, as well as being a great size for this tea blogger who owns too much tea yet wants to try more tea. In two gift boxes you get: Hoku – Taiwaniese oolong with pineapple and guava Loke Lani – Black tea with bergamont and passionfruit Lanikai – Black… Continue reading, hoot!

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Ruby Pie Tea from Butiki Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Ruby Pie is a khongea golden tippy assam black with vegan chocolate chip bunny grahams, cinnamon chips, freeze dried strawberries, and hibiscus. This fun, strawberry rhubarb pie tea blend is sold by Butiki Teas, an Oolong Owl favorite US online tea seller. Shout out to Sarah for winning – this blend was a custom blend concept that won Butiki Teas‘ Custom Blend contest back in 2012. Man, I wish my blend won, but hey, all the ideas looked really good so really whatever won and was up for sale on the site was going be good no matter what! To… Continue reading, hoot!

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Fleury Doux Champagne Tea from Art of Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Fleury Doux Champagne is an organic white peony and ceylon black tea blend with rose petals and muscatel grape flavor. This fancy tea blend is sold by Art of Tea, US tea seller. This is one of those tea blends I couldn’t pass up. Something about mixing teas, like white + black or green + black I find fun to try. The teas combined are on different levels, requiring different treatments, how do they make the blend work without it being over steeped? Why do they need to add the second tea? Ah, tea blender fun that I’m happy to… Continue reading, hoot!

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Mountain Organic Indonesian Black Tea from Tea at Sea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Mountain Organic Indonesian Black is high altitude black tea grown at high altitude on the Halimun Mountains. This tea is sold by Tea at Sea, online Canadian tea seller. First off, shout out to Tea at Sea being Canadian with offices in Vancouver, my hometown! Tea at Sea‘s website is very cool – awesome sea and tea photos! I love the pairing of sea and tea, especially after going  on a cruise and spent much of my time drinking tea and watching the ocean.  Tea at Sea sells 5 gram samples, and the next size of 50 grams you get a free tin. I’m happy to… Continue reading, hoot!

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Just Organic Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Howdy Tea Peeps! Just Organic Tea was super cool to send out some samples for Oolong Owl to taste. Just Organic Teas has a Kickstarter going to crowdfund to get their certified organic, fair trade teas out there. Check out their campaign! I got 5 different teas, so let’s check out each tea! Tasting of Just Organic Tea’s Oothu Black, Peach Apricot, Orange Spice, Pumpkin Spice Chai and Earl Grey All the steeping instructions for the teas I have all have the same steeping instructions: 195F for 4 to 5 minutes. I used 5oz of 200F filter water and steeped… Continue reading, hoot!