Reading tea leaves is easier than describing taste. Jim

This was my wildcard tea of the order. A supposedly lost for 300 year Chinese tea that has recently resurfaced and is being made again. I hadn't paid much...

I normally keep some of the osmanthus tea from Ten Ren around, for the occasional time when I or a guest might want a flavoured tea. It's delicate and...

i havent read on how trees grow etc, but even if a tree is 1000 years old, dont each new leaves grow with nutrients that are absorbed right then in those days...

Ahh… finally back to tea. My shipment arrived after the normal struggles with the USPS and their inability to grasp the concept of accepting the signed form...

We are a chinese keemun producer in Qimen County,China. I was really annoyed when talking with a merchant ( to spare trouble,I don't say which country)online...

The best tea is when no other tea will do. Jim

Another puer tasting yesterday. We have the regulars who bring something from their stash. I brought a 02 Menghai and 05 Changtai. Someone brought a 09...

Just catching up with Star Trek: TNG. The 1989 episode "Up the long ladder" includes a Klingon tea ceremony offered by Worf to Pulaski as a gesture of...

After I discovered nobody left me any 'hand picked' Glendale Nilgiri I sent a boohoo email to the owner of the local tea shoppe. He assure me there was still...

Can anyone help me? I just received my first shipment of Silver Needle and am having loads of trouble trying to brew it! The first time I tried brewing it I...

The sixth issue of the free, online magazine The Leaf has been published at: www.the-leaf.org Enjoy!

Low Fat Foods DON'T WORK. You cannot lose weight using Low Fat Diets. Low fat foods have been popular for more than 15 years, but yet our society is getting...

After the dental cleaning I push pedaled down to the local tea shoppe to get a cup to wash out the bad taste. As you enter the door there are the tea chests...

A friend just received a fancy-wrapped tea cake, complete with awl. I'm going over to taste it in a couple of days. Not sure what equipment and complementary...

I used to have a French Press type coffee 'device', got used to grinding for taste and it worked great way back when. (In fact I ended up using it till it...

I'm still drinking summer iced teas and I still have Java tea as my favorite. I'll get more in the swing of things in September. Toci

I went to our Dragon Boat Festival over the weekend. There was a real Yurt set up by our Mongolian community. After the lecture by a festival volunteer on...

This is one tea that is a roadblock to my brew anything you want in a Bodum Pavina and drink off the top. So I ask the question, does anyone enjoy Ceylon...

I thought it would never happen to me, but it has. I no longer can grin and bear a tepid cup of water with a Lipton or cut-rate tea bag plunked in. I politely...

I previously mention the owner of my local tea shoppe unloading chinese teas that dont sell. If its on sale I dont even read the label. Ive been tasting one...

Having a group of friends over for a backyard barbecue is one of the great traditions of summer in America. Sometimes there is a special occasion - graduation,...

icetea writes: anyone know when they started(i mean some not all) this spelling "puer". from what i see on old wrappers, tickets or...

My local tea shoppe is discontinuing its Taiwan TGY scented with dried pomengranate called pomoolong and Fujian BaiMuDan scented with exotic mangousteen. The...

This is marginally on-topic, but a lot of people here seem to be interested in ceramics. There's a wonderfully twisted story by Jack Vance call The Potters...