Hi friends!! I am finally opening the teas that I bought from Renegade Tea and I am so excited to be reviewing them in turn. I was initially tempted to get their Spring Splash set, but this is my first time trying their teas so I decided to be a bit more moderate and just… Read More Tea Review: Renegade Life by Renegade Tea Estate
I’ve been very good with my teaware purchases this year, and by that I mean that I’ve not bought a single teacup until earlier this month. I had a friend who was looking to let go of two cups and I liked the pattern so I bought one trio! And so, I came into possession… Read More Just tasting some 2019 Long Jing
It’s time for me to review the second aged sencha that I’ve got from The Tea Crane! I was going to say that I don’t think I’ve tried this cultivar, but thanks to this blog, I found out that I have tried it once – at a cafe. Looking at the notes from that time,… Read More Tea Review: Aged Saemidori Spring Sencha by The Tea Crane
It’s shincha time! But because I have exercised great restraint and not placed an order for shincha (I just found 3 unopened packs of Lupicia tea in my cabinet so I probably should not be buying tea yet), what I have to drink are these senchas from 2017. They were part of The Tea Crane’s… Read More Tea Review: Aged Yabukita Spring Harvest Sencha by The Tea Crane
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
I hope you are enjoying this series of tea reviews where I alternate between a flavoured tea and a straight tea because I am definitely enjoying them! I’m getting a lot of variety in my tea and that makes me happy. So today’s tea is another one of the samples that I received from The… Read More Tea Review: Kumamoto Densho Kamairicha by The Tea Crane
I’ve generally been slowly and quietly drinking the teas in Lupicia’s Book of Tea, but I could not resist talking about this one. The English name is Sencha Fuji, but the Japanese name is 富士 香駿 (Fuji Koshun). Apparently, the 香駿/Koshun cultivar is a relatively rare cultivar, so I decided to dig around and see… Read More Introducing: Koshun (香駿) Cultivar
I think I’m getting better at finishing opened teas before starting new ones because I finished the Jun Chiyabari Oolong and the Tea & Toast blend before opening this. The Nara Native Mountain-grown Sencha is one of the teas from The Tea Crane, run by Tyas Sosen (who also wrote The Story of Japanese Tea),… Read More Tea Review: Nara Native Mountain-grown Sencha from The Tea Crane
And we’re back with another review of the What-Cha haul! This time, the tea is a Korean tea, which is one of the countries I don’t know much about. For reference, the only other straight tea from Korea that I’ve tried is the Volcanic Rock Tea by O’Sulloc, so I was super excited to find… Read More Tea Review: Korean Dong Cheon Daejak Semi-Wild Green Tea from What Cha