drank Dian Yin Zhen by Nannuoshan
818 tasting notes

I enjoyed the rest of my sample of this tea today in my new gaiwan and cup from Nannuoshan! I love the buttery grilled taste of this tea and it was so beautiful to enjoy in my new teaware, which is also amazing! I think I did pretty well not burning my fingers with a true gaiwan! Yay! All my previous gaiwans were “easy” gaiwans. I was waiting until one “spoke” to me and this one did! Here are some pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/97273956@N03/16812263281/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97273956@N03/16625805978/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97273956@N03/16812262832/
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Shae

How pretty! I love the lined rim. What is the design on the front?

Tealizzy

The gaiwan has a bird on a branch and the cup is a grasshopper with some grass! Are you on Instagram? I have some close-up pics from the day it came in the mail. :)

Ubacat

Ah, the bird gaiwan and insect cup. They are beautiful.

Tealizzy

Thanks, Ubacat! :)

Shae

I am! Must have just missed those. Found the pics and they are lovely!

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Shae

How pretty! I love the lined rim. What is the design on the front?

Tealizzy

The gaiwan has a bird on a branch and the cup is a grasshopper with some grass! Are you on Instagram? I have some close-up pics from the day it came in the mail. :)

Ubacat

Ah, the bird gaiwan and insect cup. They are beautiful.

Tealizzy

Thanks, Ubacat! :)

Shae

I am! Must have just missed those. Found the pics and they are lovely!

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Another profile facelift! My tastes have changed a lot from when I first discovered loose leaf tea.

I can trace my tea journey back to October 2012, when I discovered DavidsTea. Before that, I had the occasional cup and enjoyed high tea at An Afternoon to Remember, which has since closed.

I went through a period of wanting to try all the teas, and was really into flavored teas, especially dessert blacks, but my tastes have substantially changed over time.

I still enjoy the occasional flavored black or rooibos, but I’m more into unflavored black teas right now and recently, puerh. Chinese black teas are amazing…with their notes of chocolate or sweet potato, who needs a flavored tea? I had a much steeper learning curve when it came to puerh. I used to dump out cups of puerh for tasting like leather. Now, I am really enjoying them. I think it took finding good quality puerh and steeping them gong fu style to really enjoy them.

I also, on occasion, enjoy a good oolong, white, or green tea.

Favorite tea companies right now include: Mandala, Teavivre, Butiki, Golden Moon, Lupicia, and DavidsTea (for teaware mostly).

Just a note: I don’t rate my teas numerically because my iPad doesn’t like the scroll bar. Maybe someday that will change…hint hint, steepster! ;)

P.S. My profile picture is of one of my 2 cats, Holly, who is a little princess but very photogenic, and she loves boxes, including those that bring me tea! :)

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