I love tea and my definition of what counts as a tea-related post is pretty wide. Expect to see tea reviews, reviews of books about tea, and even posts about afternoon tea.
So this review is so late that the product is no longer available (rendering the review useless) but I’m writing this in the hope that Bird & Blend Tea Co. will bring back their Tea 101 box. And also because I really, really want to talk about it. Last year, I made a pretty big… Read More I Tried Bird & Blend Tea Co.’s Tea 101 Box
Since I had the opportunity to try two new types of Benifuuki (ベニふうき/紅富貴/sometimes written Benifūki) tea, I thought it would be fun (and hopefully educational) to do a deep dive into this cultivar. What is the Benifuuki Cultivar? Developed by the National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science (野菜茶業研究所), the Benifuuki cultivar is a cross… Read More UniversiTEA: A Deep Dive into the Benifuuki tea cultivar
I’m back with another (and the last) tea made from the Benifuuki cultivar! This is a sencha from Nara and it’s very interesting. According to the booklet, this sencha “is intended to be functional as opposed to simply a delicious tea. The tea leaves used for manufacturing this rather crude looking green tea are from… Read More Tea Review: Benifuuki Sencha from The Tea Crane
Now that my one week sip-down is over, I can try new teas again! The next two teas will be from The Tea Crane’s monthly tea subscription and they are both made from Benifuuki cultivars! As you may remember, I love this cultivar in black tea form so I am very excited to try these.… Read More Tea Review: Benifuuki Kamairicha Yame from The Tea Crane
Can you guess what this bag is? (If you said “rubbish”, it’s not technically wrong) So last week, I was a little panicked because I wanted to open some new teas, but I realised that I still had a lot of opened teas. In a perfect world, I would finish one tea before opening another… Read More One Week Sip-Down
I’m back with another review of a tea from Satemwa Tea, and then I think I’ll be going back to Japanese tea (and whatever is in the second month of my Tea Crane subscription because I have not touched that). First Impressions The Thyolo Moto Guava OP1 is a black tea smoked with guava leaves,… Read More Tea Review: Thyolo Moto (Guava OP1) by Satemwa Tea Estate
Since I had three wakoucha (Japanese black teas) from The Tea Crane around AND I was still thinking about Toucha (having translated two toucha sessions), I thought it would be fun to combine the two! The video embedded is pretty much all I planned (although I did not plan to show everyone my messy kitchen)… Read More Trying a Wakoucha Toucha
So, this is a bit embarrassing but turns out I have more teas to review! I thought I had finished most of the new-to-me Japanese teas and could start on my Karel Capek order, but I had completely forgotten about these teas from Satemwa! A while back, I got in contact with them to see… Read More Tea Review: Malawi Green Oolong from Satemwa Tea Estate
I have reached a new level in my tea journey – people are asking me about tea books! Honestly, I’m really happy about this development because I love tea and reading so this is both my interests combined. And when my friend asked me if I had read The True History of Tea and what… Read More Book Review: The True History of Tea by Victor H Mair and Erling Hoh
This is the third and final tea in the ‘Aged Wakoucha’ trio that I got from The Tea Crane! It’s been a very enjoyable first box, and although these teas seem really different (drinking them individually), I’m going to see if I have time this weekend to do a comparison of the three and see… Read More Tea Review: Benihomare Aged Wakoucha by The Tea Crane