Upton Tea Black Currant

Upton Tea has an enormous selection of tea.  They certainly understand tea grading and quality.  They have 8 pages of Teas from India (including 5 pages devoted just to Darjeelings) and 13 pages of Chinese tea to choose from.  If you’re looking for high grade teas with lots of letters this this looks like a great…

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The English Rose Tea Room

I recently went to the English Rose Tea Room in Chattanooga across from the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.    I love Chattanooga and I love tea so I dragged some friends along and went a couple of times to test it out.  One cool aspect of the English Rose Tea Room is that it is in a historical…

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Kaleisia Black Currant Tea

As many of you know, Black Currant tea is one of my favorites.  I tried this Black Currant tea from Kaleisia.  They have a beautiful website where you can download their tea menu called “the book of tea”. It’s a good sturdy tea and I would drink it again.  It tastes fine but the smell…

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Tea Time magazine

Tea Time magazine is an authoritative periodical on all things tea.  Each bi-monthly issue contains reviews of different varieties of a particular kind of tea.  For example, the last issue reviewed seven different kinds of Chai. My favorite part is generally the seasonal tea ideas where they provide menus, detailed recipes, tea pairings and even…

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Piper & Leaf

The best place to buy tea in town is Piper & Leaf now located at Lowe Mill. I had to do a double-take when I discovered them last year at the Madison Farmer’s Market.  Original loose leaf tea blends created and sold right here in my hometown?  Amazing!  I stopped and talked with them and…

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SororiTea Sisters

There is a great blog (another great blog?) I’m happy to refer you to called “SororiTea Sisters, a sorority of sisters who love tea,” at http://sororiteasisters.com/.  I’ve been visiting their site off and on for some time.  They have tons and tons of posts reviewing teas from all over.  I particularly appreciate the list of on-line…

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Funky Fairy Tea

The Funky Fairy’s original location is in Killen, AL but they also have a location in Lowe Mill where I picked up some Cranberry Orange and Irish Breakfast teas. The Cranberry Orange was nice and strong but still smooth and not bitter.  The orange and cranberry were more like supporting characters, not overpowering.  It was…

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Savannah Breakfast Tea review

I really like breakfast teas.  They have a tendency to be stronger than your average tea and will really wake you up.  I’ve never been much of a morning person so I can appreciate a good breakfast tea. This is a special blend of Chinese, Indian and Ceylon teas from the Tea Room in Savannah GA. …

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