Steep Stories

Tag: Jin Xuan

  • Once Bug-Bitten, Twice Shy

    Well . . . I guess it’s time to put a certain theory to pasture. And it’s all because of these two. Who are they? I’ll get to that. What theory? Oh, I had this hypothesis that tea and dating (or courtship, whatever) didn’t “blend”.

  • When You Wish Upon a Taiwanese White Tea

    White Tea Week, Day 3: “When You Wish Upon a Taiwanese White Tea Back in the Fall, I saw a retweet from Greg “Norbu Tea” Glancy that just about put me into cardiac arrest. Japanese. White Tea. Oh. My. G-word. I saw mention of something like this existing on (of all places) Wikipedia a year…

  • Smoked Tea with Friends

    Days like this are frustrating. One casually glances around at different tea vendors, and then…it happens. There is a particular tea that catches the eye and doesn’t let the gaze turn away. That was my reaction to Norbu Tea’s Jin Xuan Xiao Zhong. (Try saying that name three times fast.) The extensive bio said everything…