Cha Gao – Traditional Instant Tea
I’ve tried a broad range of tea types in the past but never cha gao – traditional instant tea.
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Category: Black (Red) Tea
What Does it Mean for a Tea to be Brisk?
What does briskness in tea mean? To me it means bright in flavor and character or else astringent.
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Celebrating Black Tea Friday 2021
I am shamelessly subverting the commercialization of Black Friday, calling it Black TEA Friday. Please join me in celebrating Black Tea Today.
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Tuesdays With Norwood, Re-Steeped: The Black Tea Ritual
We’re going back into the archives to revisit these classic posts by James Norwood Pratt....
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Phongsaly Laos Sheng and Black Tea Reviews – Part 2
Continued from Phongsaly Laos Sheng and Black Tea Reviews – Part 1 400-year-old-plant sheng: ...
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Phongsaly Laos Sheng and Black Tea Reviews – Part 1
I never post reviews to T Ching, but of course that’s a lot of what I write about in my blog (Tea...
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Tuesdays With Norwood, Re-Steeped: Chinese Black, Keemun, & Yunnan
We’re going back into the archives to revisit these classic posts by James Norwood Pratt. This...
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Review: Teasup Black Teas
I was very excited to receive teas to review from the UK-based company Teasup. They sent me three...
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Tuesdays With Norwood, Re-Steeped: Black Tea Takes Over & Sir Tea
We’re going back into the archives to revisit these classic posts by James Norwood Pratt....
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Lapsang Souchong Star – Black Tea
Bare your blissful darkness, a dance, wisps of smoke reveal, satisfaction weaves taste buds of...
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Black tea for dark times – and caramel, too
In the part of the country where I live, drought country, we are now in full winter rainy day...
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Taiwan’s Black Tea Renaissance
Black tea production in Taiwan has always been a tremendous part of its tea culture. Although it...
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