Taiwan is internationally renowned for excellent Oolong teas, having both inherited the Oolong tradition and developed many innovations. There are so many different types of Oolongs in Taiwan, it’s no wonder that this week’s workshop at TeeMaa overran by almost an hour! Too many delicious teas to taste and history to discover.
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Oolong is my favourite type of tea. From dark oolongs to green oolongs, it’s immensely generous in its variety of colour, shape, aroma and taste. You can never get bored with oolong tea! Along the way, I’ve tried lots of different oolongs, but never in a systematic way. So I was super excited to see ‘A Deep Dive into Oolongs’ series at my favourite local teahouse here in Helsinki, TeeMaa, run by Peng and Xinyuan.
Tea Tasting: 5 types of Phoenix Dan Cong Oolong tea Read More »
I’m sat here in my Helsinki apartment, on a rapidly darkening November afternoon, wondering how to start writing my tea blog again. I didn’t stop drinking tea over these past 2 and half years, I just stopped writing about it.
I have found a beautiful, tranquil little teahouse in the heart of Helsinki specialising in Chinese teas! TeeMaa teahouse is run by a lovely woman from Hunan. They are doing a series of tea workshops, and the first one I attend is actually about a Japanese tea! Matcha is a Japanese green tea in fine powder form. It’s used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony where the whole tea leaf is consumed.
Matcha workshop at TeeMaa teahouse Read More »
At this month’s Helsinki Tea Tasting we delved into the murky world of Finnish tea drinking. It has to be said that tea is not the drink of choice for your average Finn. They are in fact the world’s largest consumers of coffee per capita. However for those who do chose tea, it’s most likely flavoured.
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Please forgive the radio silence over the past couple of weeks. I have been reconnecting with my tea roots, or in other words visiting family and friends in the UK. Living abroad and mixing with different nationalities, I’ve realised that we Brits have a very specific way of making our tea. So here’s the lowdown on British tea brewing.
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Having wound my through the vast tea plantations of the Hill Country by train, I was itching to actually get into a tea garden. Our friends, Kim & Paul, told me about a Tamil tea community perched on top of a nearby hill. As so often is the case in Sri Lanka, the journey was as memorable as the destination.
Sri Lanka’s Hill Country, part 2: tea garden wanderings Read More »
More tea tasting this week courtesy of Tarmo who has joined Yunnan Sourcing’s Sheng Pu’er Club. We tried four different Sheng Pu’ers. This time around we blind tasted each tea for three infusions. Then we wrote our own notes before comparing. Finally the details of the tea were revealed. It was a great experiment in showing just how differently people experience taste and flavours. For some infusions we had similar notes, for others, wildly different!
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One of the highlights whilst I was working at Twinings was a trip to Assam in North East India to film promotional videos. Assam is my go-to comfort tea. A very familiar taste as it’s often used as a base for English Breakfast, the tea blend that I grew up on.
An Assam Adventure Read More »
In November the Helsinki Tea Tasting Meetup tasted some great sheng pu’ers . This month it was round to my place, where we tasted some oolongs. I’d stocked up before leaving China, and was looking forward to tasting them with some newly found tea enthusiasts. Along with black tea, oolong is my favourite as it gives such a breadth of flavour.
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