Tag: Yunnan Sourcing

  • Dark Tea Déjà Vu

    NaNoTeaMo, Day 5: “Dark Tea Déjà Vu” It all started with a tweet . . . when I was drunk. Not tea drunk, actual drunk.

  • Tea and Sugar – The Weird Way

    NaNoTeaMo, Day 4: “Tea and Sugar – The Weird Way” In 2013, I was a regular follower of UK-based Canton Tea Co.’s Tea Club blog. Two of their employees went on a sourcing trip to Yunnan province, China, and picked up something rather unique. I certainly hadn’t heard of it before, and I try to…

  • The Golden “Tea”-cket – A Tandem Tea Tasting

    Back in March, when I was visiting The Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants, I ran across a particularly unusual tea. It was a small brick wrapped in gold foil, bearing an uncanny resemblance to a candy bar. I asked the teatender on duty at the time if I could sample it. She obliged and explained to…

  • Defending a Discerning Palate

    A few nights back, I had a dream where I was asked by a vendor in Darjeeling to review some of their products. The box that came in the mail was huge; there were at least fifty 100g bags in it, along with other various Indian-ish tea apparati. The first bag I took out was…