Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Where to Buy: 52Teas Tea Description: My wife wanted to pick out the tea of the week this week. With her Irish-Scottish heritage, it wasn’t enough to choose the tea for the week of St. Patty’s Day without an additional tip of the hat to her Scottish ancestry. For that [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black & White Teas Where to Buy: Capital Teas Tea Description: A commemorative union of our bold Cream Earl Grey Black and our light and refreshing Cream Earl Grey White, enhanced with the essence of roses. Learn more about this tea here. Taster’s Review: One year ago today, there was a [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Where to Buy: Life in Teacup Tea Description: Production Year – 2011 Production Season – Summer Production Region – Qimen, Anhui Province Learn more about this tea here. Taster’s Review: Keemun is among my favorite black (or red) teas. Such a wonderful complexity to Keemun tea – at once it [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Where to Buy: The Tao of Tea Tea Description: Only certain tea plant varietals can produce the golden colored tipped leaves. The golden color emerges during processing and after accurate withering (moisture drying) of the leaves. Few areas in Yunnan contain these type of plants. Other areas known to have [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Where to Buy: Harney & Sons Tea Description: In honor of our new shop in Manhattan, we are introducing our SoHo Blend. Emeric Harney, the store manager, came up with this flavored black tea concoction. Our SoHo Tea is a beautifully delicious blend of Chocolate & Coconut flavors. Learn more [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Where to Buy: Le Palais Des Thés Tea Description: Rich and sensual, Thé des Amants is a heady, fragrant blend of black tea, apple, almond, cinnamon and vanilla, spiced up with a hint of ginger. Learn more about this tea here. Taster’s Review: I have been mesmerized by the aroma [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Where to Buy: Ovation Teas Tea Description: Blend of Assam and Ceylon loose leaf black teas with bing cherries, sliced almonds, and coconut pieces with cherry, almond, and coconut flavoring. Learn more about this tea here. Taster’s Review: I’ve had this tea twice now, and interestingly enough, the flavor was [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Tea & Honeybush Where to Buy: Inspired Leaf Tea Description: Cocoa nibs and indulgent flavors of the islands. Brew up a vacation! Learn more about this tea here. Taster’s Review: YUM! This is the first tea that I’ve tried from Inspired Leaf, but I must say that I’m a fan. [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black & Green Teas Where to Buy: Empire Tea Services Tea Description: Sencha green tea, Ceylon black tea, Almond slivers, and Caramel flavoring. Learn more about this tea here. Taster’s Review: I debated with myself about whether or not I should publish this review now, or if I should wait until [...]
Tea Information: Leaf Type: Black Where to Buy: Stone Leaf Teahouse Tea Description: Grown in the shadow of Makalu (27,765 ft), the cool Himalayan air currents envelope the gardens to produce a truly unique environment that is best suited for tea. Add the considerable wisdom and experience of the tea manager, and you have the [...]
Our mutual love for tea and writing about it inspired us to start this blog so that we could better share this love with others.
One thing I (Anne) learned very early on in my career as a tea artist is that everyone has different preferences, and every single tea tastes differently on every single palate. So just because one of us doesn’t happen to like a tea, doesn’t mean that YOU (the reader) will not.
We try to be as impartial as we can. We do have our favorites. We are human. But we do our very best to be as fair and as honest about a tea as we can be.
You might not agree with my assessment – or with Jennifer’s assessment – of a tea. But that’s OK… if we all liked the same exact tea – we’d only need ONE kind of tea and … wow… that sounds really boring, indeed!
What a beautiful world it is that we have so many teas to suit so many tea enthusiasts!
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