I’m always surprised by how dark of a color white teas tend to have. While the greens, oolongs, reds and puer for the most part have colors that match their names, white teas look yellow. The color of the steeped…
White teas and New Year
Category: Chinese
Halfway Sky – new oolong varietal at Teance
We’re back! I can’t stay away from tea for very long after all, especially now that the winter harvest is here, the oolongs are arriving, and Winnie has brought back new oolongs in every sense of the word: a varietal…
Pre-rain Dragonwell 2014 – the chesnut note
“At first I didn’t really comprehend it, but then it struck me: this tea was literally on the bush just a few days ago [in Hangzhou], and here it is in my cup [half way across the globe]”, said Teance’s…
Professional tea tasting event at Teance – Recap Part II
Last week Eons ago I wrote Part I, which was an overview of the event’s atmosphere, to publish on The Daily Cal. Since the beginning of this semester I have been terribly slacking in literally everything with the excuse of…
Bailin Gongfu of Spring 2013
Last season, we had the best Bailin Gongfu. It was an instant eye-opener. It was one of the teas that I just had to buy. It had depth, layers, sweetness, kick, strength, warmth, everything. It was a tea that I…
Spring unfolds in yellow, green and white
The new spring harvest teas are arriving at Teance, and so am I. I tried three teas earlier today, a yellow tea, a green tea and a white tea, all of which I have had from previous seasons, but a…
Green puer
Recently, I had a few amazing evenings drinking puer at Cheryl’s place. In all honesty, I never liked puer before. The puer I’ve had at Teance, minus the Fragrant Leaf green puer, always struck me as muddy with a medicinal…
Tea and Duck – from appetizer to dessert
A tea pairing dinner with 5 kinds of oolong, 4 duck dishes and a steak. Read the full post on FlavorBoulevard.com.
Goji Berry, Wild Trees, and Tofu Misozuke
Six-month-old rooibos kombu tofu misozuke: whoof that was strong! I think at this stage it should be called “sake camembert”. You have to dig deep (let the cheese linger on the tongue for 5 seconds) to taste the rooibos kombu(*),…
Green, oolong and red – Second 5-course tea session
Some people do drugs, I do tea. And I get even higher when I do tea with company: when I recommend the teas to my friends and they enjoy it, I feel accomplished. So of course, when Kristen’s mom visits…