I have not encountered very many black teas that were suitable for brewing using the gongfu method, but as the name would suggest, Canton Tea Co’s Bai Ling Gong Fu is one of them. It is quite a marvelous tea, with a rich, velvet-like character much smoother than most black teas, even Yunnan Gold (Dian [...]
Formosa Shanlinxi High Mountain Oolong is the lemoniest oolong I’ve ever tasted. It has a bright, very clean, slightly acidic taste, but it is also quite smooth and silky. As is the case with most lightly oxidized oolongs, the Shanlinxi Oolong does not start off in the first infusion displaying its full potential, but instead [...]
A couple of weeks ago, one of the cats knocked Lu Yu off of the tea table, severing his teapot from the rest of him. I was going to glue it back, but I kind of like the way it is now.
Crows Calling at Night
- written by Li Bai, who also lived during the Tang [...]
DAVIDsTEA’s Organic Orange Blossom is a blend that can serve as a nice alternative to pure leaf teas when an alternative is desired. I have a tendency to really enjoy the flavors of foods and drinks that are primarily citrus fruits, so I expected that I’d like this after reading its description, and I found [...]
We have received a couple of very complimentary mentions in lists of tea blogs recently. I mention them here, trying to avoid that unclean feeling that results from self-promotion. But we’re in really good company, so I feel justified in bringing the lists, and thus the other blogs that appear on the lists, to your [...]
Are you feeling writerly on a scale even smaller than one hundred and forty character micro-blogging? Consider entering Ito En’s haiku contest. Ito En is the company that manufactures a lot of the bottled and canned green and oolong tea sold in Japan and the United States. Submissions are due by July 6th, 2009. I’m [...]
