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I've found their offerings to be consistently high quality exemplars of the types of tea they represent, so if you pick something you normally enjoy I think you'll be quite pleased. But which one is a standout depends on your tea palate.

It's been warm enough in Los Angeles for chilled sparkling tea to be back on the menu. Lately I'm putting a little tea in a flask, covering with boiling water, letting that sit covered for a while; then taking a bottle of chilled water from the fridge, carbonating it, and pouring the chilled water i...

A very nice morning session with Obubu's 'Wind' sencha, per the description on the label, 'Tea from tall mountains with a spring-breeze-like sweetness. ' And indeed, this has been a very friendly sencha, just a hint of astringency distinguishing it from a lightly shaded gyokuro, sweet, delicately ve...

Family issues brought me to Missouri last week during their very very cold snap...so I was really enjoying fresh hot tea while snug indoors i'm looking out at the fluffy fluffy snow that was so well preserved with temperatures in the single digits and below zero...

I have experienced what I would call mineral reality in some yanchas, and I would agree that it is a shorthand term for something that seems as though I'm drinking water with extra minerals in it--not just calcium and magnesium salt, but also a hint of iron. It always makes me think of what water *o...

can you look in there to see if you have a decayed leaf that is in the spout and might be breaking up?

I often back flush to clear the spout and filter by putting the spout under the water tap when washing my pots.

I don't like pots that have an infuser insert because they cause problems, may not let the leaves expand enough, and limit the circulation of the water through the leaves... I would get another pot that does not have an infuser to limit it. A filter at the spout is much more efficient, or you could ...

Ive had duck shit variety before (very tasty), but not phoenix version. I'm very curious now but need to get through some other DCs before I can order more. I've not had many sessions where I can really focus as I like to for Dan Congs, and was sad to realize some of them have been too long in the t...

It makes sense that some selected and improved varieties may be superior to their wilder or ancestral counterparts, especially if the goal of their selection really was flavor and not simply maximal yield. Flavor seems low down on the list or completely off the list of so many commodity crops where ...

That's it.....it was Farmer Leaf's wonderful tea!

and thank you for finding that.

very frustrated at the moment because I want to give credit to a lovely tea, and the packaging doesn't give me enough information. I'm gonna have to go back and dig on my computer looking back through my order records to figure this one out. I do think it was the first time I ordered from the retail...

Enjoying a marvelous start to the day with a packet of Uji Shirakawa Gyokuro from Tsuen, via O-Cha. This lovely tea has been waiting in the depths of the refrigerator for a moment in the sun, and the holiday season seems like the right moment to indulge. The anticipation started when I took it out t...

I'm still starting most days with sencha, lately working through some individual serving packets of Obubu teas from various harvests. Always a nice start to the day. But I'm back at work after some time off and I've got different teas handier here than the Imperial Pearl oolong from Mountain Tea and...

everyone has to start somewhere with tea... glad to hear that you got past the tea dust and sweet tea to realize there's a lot more out there… Even if he still go back to sweet tea as your "comfort" tea from time to time--we won't tell on you!