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Time Traveling by Way of Tea Tasting
A couple of months back, I did an Instagram Live tasting with this chap. So Han Fan, purveyor of West China Tea. I’ve “known” So Han for nearly six years. I put that in quotes because . . . we’ve never actually met in person. Our mutual tea-related hijinks only criss-crossed online. He first caught…
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Caffeine and Crassicolumna
In late 2018, various media outlets were all a-buzz about a new (old) discovery. An as-of-yet uncategorized decaffeinated tea plant in Fujian province, China. Some of the articles exaggerated the claim; others got some of the science wrong completely. Put succinctly: a long-forgotten cultivar had mutated. How does that happen? Well, as most tea botany…
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A Tea Man on Tinder
So . . . I joined Tinder last week.
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Lazy Gongfool Tastings: Nan Nuo Shan Sheng Puerh
Hiya. So, I decided to try something new. I have quite a few new teas to get through that don’t particularly fall within the parameters of my regular blog. That being, they don’t have much of a story to tell. Okay, they probably *HAVE* a story, but it was not one I could spin. I…
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Hugs, High-Fives, and Farmer Style Sencha
A couple of years ago—on a visit to the Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants shop— I tried a Japanese tea (that wasn’t sencha) that just . . . blew me away. It was a black tea blended with yuzu rind. Yes, the Japanese orange. When I described it to people, all I could muster was, “It’s…
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The Power of the Pitch at World Tea Expo
World Tea Expo, 2016, Day 2 . . . started early. Really early. Okay, maybe not that early, but it felt early. Sleep was a rare commodity that week, thus far. I immediately hit the Teas Etc. booth and grabbed an oolong to refuel. If I was going to spend the morning attending core panels,…
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Smoked Chai for the Momma’s Boy
It’s been a weird and busy month. In the span of three weeks, I had driver’s license difficulties, car troubles, multiple projects, and some minor financial headaches. Yet all of these things didn’t affect my mood any. Reason being? My Mum had my back. As if it wasn’t quite obvious, I’m a total momma’s boy.…
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