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Review: Tea Horse Black Keemun Mao Feng
Black Keemun Mao Feng is a great deviation from the normal Keemun. While I like Keemun tea, I often find that this standard breakfast tea it can be a little too heavy and/or smoky for my personal...
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Review: Hayes Tea Keemun Black
In my experience, Keemun teas fall into two categories: flowery or chocolaty. These leaves were neither. They were so smoky, I would put them in the Lap-sang Souchong category. Hayes Tea’s...
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Review: Tea Horse Black Keemun Mao Feng
The dry leaf of this Black Keemun Mao Feng offering from Tea Horse is dark chocolate to matte black in color and presents medium to longer curls of leaf – slender and beautiful. The scent is high and...
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Review: Teavivre Organic Superfine Keemun Fragrant Black Tea
This tea was harvested April 10, 2012 – I’m guessing the new crop should be on it’s way soon. It was grown on Mt. Huangshan, near the town of Qimen, the birthplace of Keemun teas. This is the highest...
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Review: Teavivre Organic Superfine Keemun Fragrant Black Tea
Teavivre just happens to be a company that I tend to order from a few times a year so I am always happy to review a new product from there. A good portion of the time, that tea will go onto my next...
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Review: Lu Lin Teas Single Estate Keemun Tea
The more I sample products from Lu Lin Teas, the more I am becoming impressed with what they have to offer. This morning I opened their Single Estate Keemun Tea and was greeted with a fresh and pungent...
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Review: Tea Horse Black Keemun Mao Feng
Keemuns are some of my favourite teas. I love them for their robust yet creamy qualities. This offering is no exception to the genre. Looking at my sample, the ebony-coloured leaves are impressively...
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Review: Teayama Imperial Keemun Mao Feng
This Chinese black tea promises “complex flavor, both delicate and robust with floral and woody notes”. The leaves are quite wispy and dainty looking. Most are a deep espresso brown but there are a few...
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Review: Teayama Imperial Keemun Mao Feng
Regardless of even the most black tea-averse palate, it is nearly inevitable that every tea drinker will find themselves, mug in hand, with the most globally consumed variety. I for one will openly...
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Review: Kally Tea Ripe Raspberry
Ripe Raspberry is a black hibiscus tea by Kally Tea. I took a look at Kally Tea’s website and found that they are passionate about loose leaf tea. They also have a cool deal where, if you purchase 2...
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Review: Culinary Teas Keemun Panda Grade 1 Tea
Culinary Teas’ website provides lots of information about the historical context that gave birth to this tea, namely the Opium Wars between England and China, as well as the Brits’ insatiable thirst...
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Review: Teasenz Keemun Tea
This is my first time reviewing a sample from Teasenz. This offering was harvested in the winter of 2012 in Qimen County, China, the original birthplace of keemuns. The picture on the website does not...
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Review: Vintage Tea Company Qimen Aromatic Snail Tea
This tea has been entirely hand-processed, starting with its harvest on March 23, 2013. It’s an unusual blend of black Keemun and green Biluochun. The curly leaves are teensy but whole. They are mostly...
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Review: Vintage Tea Company Qimen Aromatic Snail Tea
I have reviewed teas from companies based in the US, England, Taiwan, and China and now I can add Australia to that list. Vintage Tea Co is one that caters to connoisseurs and all of the teas that they...
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