I recently realized that I have three different kinds of bilochun green tea and it didn't take long to get the idea of a horizontal tasting of all three. Oddly enough, all three of the teas were gifts to me. Bilochun is a green tea from the Jiangsu Province in China and is considered of … Continue reading Comparing Three Bilochuns →

Smoked teas. They aren't for everyone. Usually, it is one of those things that people either love or hate, and I fall in the camp of loving it. In fact, if you forced me to pick my favorite tea, I would say a smoky Lapsang Souchong. I had three different smoked teas on hand, and … Continue reading A Trio of Smoked Teas →

So I don't have much experience with white tea, hardly any to be accurate. I have two and only two kinds of white teas in my possession so I thought it would be interesting to taste them side by side to compare. Those teas are White Peony (Bai Mu Dan) from Mei Leaf and a … Continue reading Tasting Two White Teas →

Hey y'all, this post has been a long time in the making and I finally took the plunge and did it today. Matcha has been a trendy fad lately and I wanted to give a little info on what matcha actually is and I also tasted three matchas in a horizontal tasting to determine which … Continue reading Let’s Talk About Matcha →

So this is the other tea that I picked and processed on my tea trip, the Mississippi Queen. I have to say this tea is quite unlike any other green tea I have had. I guess being grown in Mississippi has a lot to do with it. This is a rolled and steamed green tea, … Continue reading Mississippi Queen and Jeju Sejak →

I've been wanting to do a side by side comparison of tea for a while and tonight I did one I have been thinking about for a while. These are two teas that I already had in my stash, and once I realized that they were both Keemuns I wanted to do a comparison. Keemun … Continue reading A Tale of Two Keemuns →