Just Another Tea Blog

I completely forgot how much I love the taste and feeling Yerba Maté gives me. It does taste like October to me though. Because that’s when I usually drink it. Nothing wrong with October in June!
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WILD DEHONG PURPLE DIAN HONG - Evening Sky. This was a sample from our friend Sarah 🫖 Thank you again for sharing. It was a very flavorful red tea with notes of butterscotch and plum. ​This tea comes from the Mangshi Township, Dehong prefecture of Yunnan, a province in Southwest China, and as we have discussed, the birthplace of all tea. Dehong is one of eight autonomous prefectures in Yunnan, bordering Myanmar to the West. The Dai and Jingpo tribes abound throughout the area. Evening Sky is made from the “wild purple” varietal, also known as Camellia Assamica var. dehongensis. Its potency and incredible Qi arise from its unadulterated nature.

A very good friend of mine Jimmy McWhinney lives in Shanghai, China and sent me these amazing teas from his friends farm called Renewal Teas. He explained that the “Renewal teas” are from his friend’s farm where their Renewal trainees can be directly involved in the harvesting and processing of the tea, supervised by a local family of tea farmers with generations of experience. They have full confidence and supervision of the method of farming, processing and packaging the teas. The preparation is traditional with no additives. All except the white tea are panned in a wood-burning wok so that may come through in the flavor.

Last night we celebrated our tradition of having a tea ceremony the night before our daughter’s birthday. She is four years old today. My parents were here in town and enjoyed all of the delicious teas with us. We started with the Ancient tree black tea – large, unshaped leaves. This tea tasted mature with resiny/oily notes of rich honey. It was velvety smooth and pungent. We then had the Fragrant honey oolong - loose-leaf tea. This Oolong had a very rich taste. It almost seemed carbon baked. Very good long lasting flavor and held many steeps. Next was the Shu (raw) pu’er – packaged as large dark green pebbles. This Pu’er almost had a cheese/feet like quality about it. It was very unique and dank. At first the smell was a bit off putting, but I quickly grew to love it. The final tea of the night was the Ancient tree sheng (ripe) pu’er – packaged as dragon pearls in peach wrapper. This was buttery and rich like apricot custard. Also notes of manuka honey. Remarkable tea and was a great way to end the night!

Thank you so much Jimmy for sharing your local tea with me. We truly appreciate it! Jeana Marino Photography + Fine Art

Homemade Keto Pumpkin Cheescake cookies with Masala Chai tea made with Black Magnolia tea from . 🎃🍂🍁🫖

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