Posted on August 28, 2010
In any tasting session, brief or more time-intensive, I generally try to taste teas that belong to one subgroup.
Usually the range is narrower, but sometimes the exigencies of having to decide on one over another in preparing an order, or just plain eagerness to taste an unusual looking tea make for a grouping of teas [...]
Posted on July 21, 2010
Many people have probably been drinking Sencha Green tea without realizing it. Sencha is probably the tea most widely used to make a base for Green flavored blends, such as Peach Green or some other more exotically named Green’s.
The reason for this choice of tea perhaps has less to do with its flavor than with [...]
Posted on July 12, 2010
“Hollywood” is spelled out in huge letters in the hills above L.A. That’s what I thought of when I saw a set of large characters proclaiming “tea” on a hill in the Lu Mountains. The characters were in red and, set against the green of tea hills, they were hard to miss.
Surrounded by provinces known for [...]
Posted on July 4, 2010
[Happy July 4th! This is the time for iced teas and what better way to explore teas by trying some of them iced; see my posts from August 2009 for suggestions besides the standard Black teas.]
This post revisits the topic of developing a framework within which to assess good value teas, especially when they are [...]
Posted on July 4, 2010
As I tasted a newly arrived sample of Green tea, I was curious about how the tea got its name, AnJi White Green.
Most White teas don’t look white. Here before me was a Green tea that looked white (more on this below).
In the specialty tea industry, defining White tea is a work in progress. Consumers [...]