Tea – Chinese
Lapsang Souchong, Yunnans, etc.
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Review of Golden Heaven Yunnan by The English Tea Store
Name: Golden Heaven Yunnan Brand: English Tea Store Type: Black tea Form: Loose leaf Review: Yunnan golds are always a surprise. Some are earthy, some spicy, some sweet. I’ve tasted some that taste purely of honey, while others are deeply complex. This Golden Yunnan offers a blend of earthy flavor along with a strong jolt… Continue reading
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Spotlight on Black Tea
For most of us – or at least for most of us this side of Asia – tea and black tea are almost synonymous. Though other types of tea have become more popular in the West in recent times, if someone mentions the word tea, it’s likely to conjure up an image of that old… Continue reading
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Review — Golden Moon Temple of Heaven Gunpowder Tea
Name: Temple of Heaven Gunpowder Brand: Golden Moon Type: Green tea Form: Loose leaf Review: Poor gunpowder green tea often gets no respect. Sadly, this is because those that distribute the stuff often fail to source good gunpowder tea, and instead foist unappealing dark pellets of bitter tea onto their unsuspecting pubic. Fortunately, Golden Moon… Continue reading
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Stretching Your Tea Dollars
Proper tea steeping is generally regarded as a must for enjoying teas at their best. It’s also the way to make sure that the money you spend on these teas is stretched to their utmost value. There is a trend these days for tea vendors to put directions for steeping their teas to get best… Continue reading
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Golden Moon’s Lapsang Souchong
Name: Lapsang Souchong Brand: Golden Moon Type: Black tea, smoked Form: Loose leaf Review: Lapsang souchong is one of those teas that people either love or hate. On one hand, a “smoked tea” (lapsang souchong is made by smoking black tea over a pine fire) does take a bit of getting used to. On the… Continue reading
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China Green
There are a lot of teas in China, a fact that has given rise to the popular saying – all the tea in China. The abundance of tea there should come as no surprise, given that China is not only the birthplace of tea but is also the number one tea producer in the world.… Continue reading
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A Brief Guide to Black Tea
Ask a tea drinker in the United States, Great Britain or any one of a number of other countries in the West to picture a cup of tea and they’ll probably imagine that old tried and true of the tea drinking world – black tea. Yes, the times they are a’ changin’ and tea drinkers… Continue reading
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What Do Monkeys Have to Do with Tea?
If you’ve been drinking tea awhile and have been exploring beyond the basic black, you’ve come across teas with “monkey” in their name. For example, there’s White Monkey Paw Green Tea and 100 Monkeys White Tea, both from China. This leads to the question: What Do Monkeys Have to Do with Tea? Several things, actually.… Continue reading
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Oolong Tea
By most accounts there are six main categories of tea. All of these come from the same plant — Camellia sinensis — and do not have anything to do with those beverages often known as herbal teas or tisanes. Categories of real tea include black, green, white, yellow, puerh and oolong. The latter might also be… Continue reading
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China Black
Black tea might not exactly be the Rodney Dangerfield (gets no respect) of the tea world but nowadays it seems that the other five varieties tend to get more attention. To review very briefly, there are generally thought to be five main types of tea in addition to black – green, oolong, white, yellow and… Continue reading
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