tea

There was a lot of whining early on about how bad weather was going to make 2009 a bad year for Darjeelings. This may be true in a relative sense, but the teas that I’ve tried so far have been … Continued

I thought I would celebrate the end of year by naming my five favorite teas of 2008. Note that I mean teas that I have tasted in the past year, not necessarily the 2008 harvest. In the spirit of diversity, … Continued

For the most part, I really like oolong tea, but I don’t drink a lot of it. Lately I’ve been very focused on pu-erh, but I have made some recent interesting excursions into “the other gong-fu tea.” So here are … Continued

China black teas are not an area that I have explored much in the past, but here are a few that I have sampled recently from Upton.

A few more reports from my continuing exploration of the world of pu-erh tea, specifically sheng pu-erh.

I just received a shipment from Upton that includes two interesting Darjeeling teas, so I thought I’d try them both right away. During the spring and summer I’ve been drinking a lot of first flush Darjeeling, so I thought I’d … Continued

When last I visited pu-erh tea, I was prepared to leave it as an interesting curiosity of the tea world. I had done my duty by trying a pu-erh and could now move on to some other exotic corner of … Continued

I thought that my first foray into the world of pu-er warranted its own entry. Today I’ll discuss three other teas that came with the pu-er in my recent Tao of Tea order: one black, one green, one oolong. Black … Continued

There comes a time in the life of every tea geek when he or she will become curious about pu-er. This is because there are tea geeks out there who seem to think that pu-er is just about the only … Continued

This post will introduce a new theme to this blog, namely tea. I have been a tea enthusiast for some years but have been reluctant to blog about it because there are so many perfectly good tea blogs out there … Continued