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Archive for December, 2007

Three Interesting Teas

Posted by Cinnabar on December 31st, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I was given the opportunity to participate in the online Holiday Tea Tasting for T Ching and sampled three lovely teas. Additional reviews and some of the teas themselves can be found on T Ching’s site. The three teas selected were very different from each other and complimented each other, [...]

You Zi Cha: Pu-erh Aged in a Grapefruit

Posted by Cinnabar on December 21st, 2007

More accurately, this very large and lovely green Southeast Asian fruit is not a grapefruit, but a Pomelo, although sometimes it is called a Chinese grapefruit. Like the grapefruit it is distantly related to, the pomelo is a very large citrus fruit with thick skin and membranes. Unlike the grapefruit we usually see in the [...]