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Review — Tangiers Lemon Flavored White Tea
Name: Tangiers Lemon Flavored White Tea Brand: English Tea Store Type: White Tea, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: I’ve long said that white peony tea and lemon are a natural pairing: While I love the fruitiness of unflavored white peony, a little kick of lemon is sometimes a welcome addition, adding a bit of tang… Continue reading
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Tea and Art
In my last post, I talked about revisiting the UK. One of the things I decided to do was get my tourist hat on, take trips down memory lane in London, and in one of my trips, I came across this: The typeface of the letters against the backdrop of a blue sky made me… Continue reading
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“Tea, Its Mystery and History” by Samuel Phillips Day
Say what you want about life in the digital era, but don’t say that it hasn’t brought us a wealth of books in electronic form that previously were not readily available to most of us. Of course, that includes books about tea, a number of which we’ve taken a look at in these very pages.… Continue reading
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Review — Scottish Breakfast Tea
Name: Scottish Breakfast Tea Brand: English Tea Store Type: Black tea, blend Form: Loose leaf Review: This is an interesting blend of Indian teas, including Assam, as well as Keemun from China. According to a video produced by the English Tea Store, one of the goals in the blending of this tea was to suggest… Continue reading
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Review — Wild Blueberry Organic Black Tea
Name: Organic Wild Blueberry Black Tea Brand: English Tea Store Type: Black tea, flavored Form: Loose leaf Review: Now this is the sort of flavored tea that I like: It doesn’t club me over the head with flavor, and I can still taste the tea. At the same time, it is unmistakably a “blueberry” tea:… Continue reading
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Teapot Shape Defies Infusers
Have you noticed that the best steeping teapots, no matter how “unique” they are, have a tendency toward stout? There are exceptions out there and some really “different” ones in that pack, but generally short and squat are regarded as the preferred dimensions for the best steepers. From the standard in many a UK kitchen… Continue reading
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A Special Thanks to Tea Growers
’Tis the season when we give thanks for the good things in our lives. Tea is one of the best things to us tea lovers out there, so a special thanks to tea growers is certainly warranted. Most of us have some awareness of how produce items get from the soil they grow in to… Continue reading
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The A-Z of Tea Types
There’s a type of tea for every letter of the alphabet (except maybe V – see below), but of course that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the great wide world of tea varieties. Won’t you sing along with me? ♪ ♫ “A, B, C, D…” ♫ ♪ Assam A state… Continue reading
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Profiles in Tea: Kevin Gascoyne of “Camellia Sinensis”
Quite possibly the most knowledgeable Darjeeling expert outside of the Himalayas, Kevin is the black tea specialist for Québec-based Camellia Sinensis. Along with popular tea rooms in Montréal and Québec City, Kevin and his partners operate niche retail and wholesale businesses recognized for their high quality teas. I met Kevin about ten years ago when… Continue reading
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