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		<title>Jasmine Teas, More Than Just + Flowers</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2012/02/05/jasmine-teas-more-than-just-flowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jasmine Teas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Festivities for the Year of the Dragon (falling on Jan. 23, 2012) are under way. This time of year presents certain challenges for finding some teas.  What seemed like bravely given orders  for Jasmine teas placed in late summer turned out to be a good hunch, but still falling short in some areas.  Stock needs to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oolong, Not Just a Restrt Tea (Part 3): the Light/High End</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2012/01/22/oolong-not-just-a-restrt-tea-part-3-the-lihgthigh-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oolong Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan Oolongs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Winter, of course, is a dormant period; weeding continues, but not much else happens in most tea gardens.  Autumn&#8217;s harvest of Oolong (not so different from autumnal Darjeelings) produces fine teas.  What a welcome surprise, therefore, to receive a small collection this time of year, including some limited winter production teas. It has become a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good to the Last Drop</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2012/01/08/good-to-the-last-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s slim pickings during winter in general where teas are concerned, so it was lovely to receive a winter harvested Pi Lo Chun Green from Taiwan.  As noted elsewhere, this is a very different looking tea from the famed Pi Lo Chun from Jiangsu province, close enough to Shanghai so that this favorite is readily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Green&#8230;After All These Months</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/12/24/still-green-after-all-these-months/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/12/24/still-green-after-all-these-months/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proper storage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 draws to a close, we see the last of some teas as well.  Inquiring about Gunpowder Green teas, for example, I learned this week that prices are &#8220;going crazy,&#8221; at least for the better quality, tightly rolled grades.  This particular tea is finished each July, meaning that stocks are dwindling and prices unstable.  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oolong, Not Just a Restrt Tea (Part 2): the Dark Side</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/12/11/oolong-not-just-a-restrt-tea-part-2-the-dark-side/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/12/11/oolong-not-just-a-restrt-tea-part-2-the-dark-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oolong Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centuries-old Shui Hsien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DaHongPao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dark Oolongs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rou Gui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ShuiJinKwei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TieLuoHan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the late posting.  The wind storm that hit southern California on Dec. 1st knocked out power for a couple of days. The previous post gave an overview of Oolong teas beyond the familiar Chinese restaurant tea.  Here I turn to the more oxidized and roasted subgroup. These expensive, extravagantly long-leafed Oolongs may well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oolong, Not Just A Restaurant Tea Anymore (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/11/20/oolong-not-just-a-restaurant-tea-anymore-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/11/20/oolong-not-just-a-restaurant-tea-anymore-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oolong Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Se Chung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shui Hsien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TiKuanYin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I was updating copy for a restaurant Oolong, I was reminded of how far this category has come.  If you stop to read the product descriptions on boxes of Oolong teabags, you are likely to find some reference to Chinese restaurants. After all, Oolong became familiar to many tea drinkers as part of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large Leaf, Small Leaf</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/11/12/large-leaf-small-leaf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/11/12/large-leaf-small-leaf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yunnan Gold Tip Black]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had waited eagerly for the arrival of both Black teas; both sold out soon after.  They shared a Yunnan origin, and yet I had not thought of the two together until the stock had dwindled.   I knew soon after their arrival that new lots would not be available until later this year. Faced with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TiKuanYin, a Complex Tea&#8230; Still Flummoxed</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/10/30/tikuanyin-a-complex-tea-still-flummoxed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/10/30/tikuanyin-a-complex-tea-still-flummoxed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oolong Teas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/?p=3542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have devoted several posts to Ti Kuan Yin teas.  They are good tasting teas and deserve to be better known; they are fussy teas to make, so there is a body of information there for those who want to be able to identify TKY from other Oolongs. This is the tea type, par excellence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Small Package&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/10/23/another-small-package/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/10/23/another-small-package/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Black Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oolong Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compressed teas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a post dated August 21, 2011 I wrote about a brownie-sized square of Oolong tea. Several weeks ago I received a small red foil packet containing Black tea, notable because it had been made from a Shui Hsien varietal, one customarily used to make an Oolong that bears this name.  (Shui Hsien is sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Walk into a Tea Shop, Asked for a White Tea&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/10/16/i-walk-into-a-tea-shop-asked-for-a-white-tea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.readingthetealeaves.com/2011/10/16/i-walk-into-a-tea-shop-asked-for-a-white-tea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lydiakung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[White Teas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[varietals & processing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In preparing for a presentation about tea quality and value, I needed to gather more teas than those available to me at work.  I was looking for more examples of specific types and grades of a few teas.   This was why I was tea shopping (at retail too), not something I do much of [...]]]></description>
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