Previously, we looked at Rooibos tea so today we are going to explore a British classic in tea, English Breakfast. It is one of the most standard teas for tea lovers, ranging from beginner to connoisseur. You may have seen them in supermarkets here in the US, with a wide range in the tea aisle, …
One of the chief areas in India for growing tea is the state of Assam in the northeastern part of the country. There are hundreds of tea gardens (Chah-Buwas or tea plantations) with names that can be real tongue twisters. Two of my favorites are Borengajuli and Tarajulie (simple to say if you pronounce them …
I haven’t made a thorough study of the matter, but I’d venture to say that if you’re looking for information on the gardens that produce your Indian single-estate tea you’re likely to come up dry in many cases. Take Tarajulie Estate, for instance, who produce the fine Assam tea that’s the subject of this review. …
Continue reading Tea Review — The English Tea Store’s Tarajulie Estate
As I noted recently in a tea review at my own site, the final few months of 2012 were quite a bonanza to a black tea-loving fellow such as yours truly. A pile of samples came flooding in (okay, just a slight exaggeration), and some of them were quite good, thank you very much. Among …
Continue reading Tea Review: English Tea Store Borengajuli Estate Assam
In my recent review of the English Tea Store's Golden Heaven Yunnan, a Chinese black tea, I may have spoken a bit rashly. After many years of enthusiastically banging the drum for Assam tea, I made the comment that "I'm starting to wonder if I don't like Yunnan better." Which wasn't exactly a definitive statement, …
Continue reading Tea Review: English Tea Store Organic Assam TGFOP
Time for another recipe (the 6th in a baker’s dozen). This is another that goes great with tea. Be adventurous and give her recipe a try with a pot of the tea named and assess the pairing for yourself. The recipe: Black Bean Quesadillas To me, dishes like this are great for cooler weather, which …
Continue reading Pairing Tea and Food — Black Bean Quesadillas and Assam Tea
When a well-known coffee retailer chain recently announced that it would open its first location in India, in partnership with an Indian company, numerous media outlets were quick to point out that the firm would be moving into a nation that's better known for tea than coffee. Never mind that the coffee retailing giant also sells …
Tea Name: Assam TGFOP Tea Type: Black tea from the Assam area of India Assam tea is made from a varietal of the tea plant called Camellia Sinensis assamica and is grown in the Assam state in northeast India where the Brahmaputra River flows. The Indian people had cultivated this plant for centuries before the …
Continue reading Review ― Assam TGFOP from The English Tea Store
Another trip around the sun, another Summer winding down, and another occasion to celebrate with tea: the Autumnal Equinox rolls around once more. For those of you who don’t pay a lot of attention to the various phases of our journey through this solar system, I’ll give a brief rundown of what “Autumnal Equinox” is. …
As people learn more about tea and consequently seek better and more exotic teas, are some perfectly good teas getting pushed out of the market? It’s often called snobbery — or just a strong personal preference. My favorite tea is CTC Assam, a lower quality, machine processed tea from the Assam area of India that …
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