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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Vietnamese Oolongs Made from Wild Assamica, on the site Steep Stories 1 day, 10 hours ago

Vietnam has an unfortunate reputation in tea circles.

Not entirely undeserved. Like countries such as Thailand, one of the ways they’ve tried to establish a tea growing/producing identity is by emulating t […]
- Xavier replied 22 hours, 25 minutes ago
  
  Sun Bear and Moon Bear? As long as they are not ghost ones, I can drink them.
Xavier wrote a new post, The only one stuck is the last one, on the site Teaconomics 1 week, 3 days ago

According to the Times of India in its edition of October 17th of 2019, the Tea Board of India wanted to meet the producers of Darjeeling teas to “propose 100% mandatory sales […] via auction” and more impor […]
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Two Faces of Issaku, on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks ago

At the Portland Tea Festival in July (of this year, the time of this writing), Oolong Owl dragged me to a Japanese tea vendor booth. This was markedly weird for two reasons: one, the Owl rarely dragged—more l […]
- Xavier replied 1 week, 4 days ago
  
  I wonder what the gold really brings to this tea.
  - lazyliteratus replied 1 day, 10 hours ago
    
    Nothin’. Just fanciness.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Entheogenesis in Chicago, on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks, 5 days ago

At the end of October, I did something completely out of character. I traveled to a city I’d never visited . . . for a tea festival. Stranger still? I flew out for said unknown (to me) city on Halloween. Nothing a […]
- Xavier replied 2 weeks, 4 days ago
  
  Old? No. Experienced and still on a journey to and with more tea.
  
  The Tea-Rex is really hilarious and a great idea.
iheartteas wrote a new post, Chicago Tea Festival 2019, on the site iHeartTeas 3 weeks, 5 days ago

First Annual Chicago Tea Festival

Day One:
Located at Holiday Inn Express Merchandise Mart in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, I was thrilled to discover a view of the Chicago River from my hotel […]

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Day 3 and final day of @chiteafest. So far the experience has been positive. Today look out for more story posts of the vendors and a couple of lectures and workshops including the Tea & Bourbon Pairing this afternoon. Both panels I spoke in yesterday were a wonderful success. Thank you to all those that participated with me and those in attendance. I truly hope this will become an annual experience. . . . #chicagoteafestival #chiteafest #chicago #tea #rivernorthchicago #holidayinnmerchandisemart #merchandisemart #teawriter #teablogger #teaspeaker #tealover #blogger #influencer #chitown #healthcoach #healthy #fit #wellness #local

A post shared by Rachel Rachana Carter (@iheartteas) on Nov 3, 2019 at 6:31am PST
- Xavier replied 3 weeks, 4 days ago
  
  It seems quite a diversified approach to business and insights on tea, not only selling teas. Really interesting to hear from it.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Revisiting Castleton Moonlight, on the site Steep Stories 3 weeks, 5 days ago

I think it’s high time I talk about the Castleton estate.

Again.

I say “again” because, if you’re no stranger to this blog, you’ll know that it is one of my favorite gardens from one of my favorite […]
- Xavier replied 3 weeks, 4 days ago
  
  You are a man of habit but only the best ones and a Tea-Rex 😀
Xavier wrote a new post, One never knows how loyalty is born, on the site Teaconomics 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why is Earl Grey/Green Tea/… popular and proposed/drank in most places? How do trends begin? Good questions indeed. When I was asked about it, I began doing some research and I found some information on how t […]
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Focus on Fellowship, on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 3 weeks ago

A week ago, an article made the rounds in the greater tea community sphere. At the time it came out, it rubbed me the wrong way. So much so, I originally meant to pen a rant pointing out where it went wrong, and […]
- Xavier replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago
  
  Tea is about sharing and the fellowship.
  Drinking tea alone isn’t fun.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, My Birthday at a Tea Festival, on the site Steep Stories 2 months ago

Over a week ago, I attended Northwest Tea Festival. Again.

It also happened to fall on my birthday.

I decided at the end of summer that the best way to ring in my 43rd year on Earth was to make a […]
- Xavier replied 2 months ago
  
  I really liked the meme before and after. However last time I attended one, I don’t remember in such a state.
  …
  Perhaps, this is the proof that I might have been infected.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, There Once Were Two Teas from Huiming, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sometimes, in my search for new teas to try, I get drawn in by mentions of particular producers.

This is Wei Zhong He. I first learned of him through my dealings with Kevin Gascoyne (Camellia Sinensis Tea […]
- Xavier replied 2 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  You are the Enterprise of tea, finding combos that no one (from my point of view) ever found and managing to present them while managing to make me want to give them a try.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Tea Balls of Manipur, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago

Earlier this year, a fellow tea blogger sent me information on an Indian tea growing region I’d never heard of.

A place filled with old(er) growth, semi-wild assamica forests, which bordered Assam to the E […]
- Xavier replied 3 months ago
  
  You answered my question before you knew it, regarding how much tea you should use it.
  It is strange that a white tea produced such a dark liquor.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Sheng Puerh-Style Teas from Vietnam, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 1 week ago

Over a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote an article discussing the nature of sheng cha.

It didn’t go over well.

I used a Vietnamese sheng puerh-style tea from Son La province as a part of my thesis, and it a […]
- Xavier replied 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  Such names. Too bad there were two genies. I would have imagined something like Ice Genie.
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Alternate Tea Etiquette, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Five days ago, a vendor friend posted this article on Facebook:

I didn’t read it, which is usually what not to do, but I’ve seen such tea topical articles before. The direction they were going in was n […]
- Xavier replied 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  The first of the tea club is that there are no rules (unless you ask @TheDevotea :P).
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Flow of Tea and Time, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 3 weeks ago

I should probably get around to talking about World Tea Expo 2019, huh?

To be truthful, my delay in doing so wasn’t related to my usual brand of procrastination, but rather some trauma. Stuff I’ve had dif […]
- Xavier replied 3 months, 1 week ago
  
  Thanks for the backwards report, I enjoyed reading it.
  
  And don’t forget home, sweet tea home! I am sure you will enjoy being Darjeeling, Ceylon… really soon.
iheartteas wrote a new post, NYC Tea Tour Day One, on the site iHeartTeas 4 months ago

#NYCTeaTour: Day One

First of all, I can’t believe I finally made it to New York with all my tea friends I made through our passion of tea. Some of us met way back on Steepster others later on Instagram but on […]
- Xavier replied 4 months ago
  
  An all-women tea tour in New-York? Sounds and looks really great.
Robert Godden wrote a new post, Every Day – Part 1, on the site Lord Devotea's Tea Spouts 4 months, 1 week ago

At my “peak”, for want of a better word, I posted over 100 blog posts in one year. But lately that has tapered off a little.

I say ‘a little’, but this is my fourth post for 2019.

I know it’s been hard for […]
- lazyliteratus replied 4 months, 1 week ago
  
  Totally adding “Overpopulated Scrotum” to my lexicon. And, quite frankly, if you had named the tea that oh, I can think of several people in the US that would have bought it just for name alone.
- Xavier replied 4 months, 1 week ago
  
  I would never have guessed it (and I tried to do so but only in my mind after reading your Facebook post).
  
  And even if you didn’t mention me, I was drinking tea after tea wondering if you had stopped writing (okay, I would have drunk tea after tea even without that but it sounds better when I say it that way, doesn’t it?).
lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Rare Tea Tasting with Kevin Gascoyne, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 1 week ago

As some of you have seen—via my social media—in June, I was at World Tea Expo.

For those who don’t follow me on those platforms . . . I don’t blame you. But that’s beside the point. In the middle of June, […]
- Xavier replied 4 months, 1 week ago
  
  ?Tea cult and tea meditation? You had quite an experience.
Xavier wrote a new post, Whisky in a cup of tea, on the site Teaconomics 4 months, 1 week ago

Did you know that Al Capone drank whisky in a cup of tea? It might be a hoax but I heard it on a rather serious radio and I found it cool enough to mention it here. A more “serious” reason than the “cool” factor […]
iheartteas wrote a new post, World Tea Expo 2019: Two Worlds Collide, on the site iHeartTeas 5 months ago

World Tea Expo
Las Vegas 2019
Two Worlds Collide

It seems hard to believe that this is my sixth year at Expo, which would have been seventh had I not stayed behind after the birth of my son, no […]
- Xavier replied 5 months ago
  
  mocktails? What is this?
  
  I like this report on two new trends : more hype bars with cocktails and people focusing more on origin and tastes.
  
  Thanks for this report.
Xavier wrote a new post, Don't feed the trolls, on the site Teaconomics 5 months, 1 week ago

Don’t feed the trolls is a known motto of the Internet but sometimes I have to feed my inner troll. First because they don’t always look like those of the Hobbit and two because mine is a travelling one that is […]
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