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Exquisite Loose Green Tea from Masters Tea by Adagio (Review)

September 1, 2019 by Joi Leave a Comment

Masters by Adagio Teas

Masters Teas by Adagio

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times – tea isn’t just a drink, tea is an experience. Whatever the reason(s), tea isn’t just something we enjoy while making memories, it becomes part OF the memory:

  • A hot chai tea latte while watching the first snowfall
  • A tall class of iced raspberry tea as you admire your bed of zinnias
  • Hot green tea with honey and a slice of orange while wrapping Christmas presents
  • An especially good glass of iced tea on date night with the love of your life

Tea is that special – and every true tea lover knows it.

Meng Ding Huang Ya

Meng Ding Huang Ya

That’s why we never hesitate to buy specialty teas, gorgeous tea mugs, infusers, tea-related products, etc. And that’s why we get downright excited when we come across a new source for excellent tea. As you can tell from my tea reviews, I love ordering loose tea online. While I buy my everyday tea bags at Kroger, I’ve found that the best loose tea is only online.

Over the years, one of my favorite sources has been Adagio tea. They’re just excellent – every single step of the buying, brewing, and drinking process is flawless. How many things can you say that about?!

That’s why I was so excited to learn that they’d launched a new division, Master Teas, and why I jumped at the chance to review a few teas on my tea blog.

Master Teas Mission Statement:

The intention of Masters Teas is to share the finest, freshest specialty teas direct from the farms where they grow. We invite you to get to know the artisans who tender them and learn their stories. It is not necessary to be a tea connoisseur to enjoy these exceptional productions, as we intend to offer as much information as possible to help you on a journey of tea discovery. Masters Teas is proud to offer you our 2019 fresh-from-the-field teas the moment they arrive. Each offering is a limited edition, small-lot production.

Meng Ding Mao Feng

Meng Ding Mao Feng

I love green tea with a passion, so each of the loose teas I chose to review were green teas:

  • Meng Ding Mao Feng
  • Meng Ding Huang Ya
  • Yu Qian Anji Bai Cha

I’ve tried each of these three BEAUTIFUL teas hot and cold and they are simply breathtaking. If you’ve ever enjoyed top of the line loose tea, you’ll know what I mean when I say there’s simply nothing quite like it. I cannot possibly say which of these exquisite teas is my favorite. While there is a similarity between the first two, there is also noticeable difference. Meng Ding Mao Feng has a sweeter taste – especially (for me, anyway) when iced. It tastes like an amazing cup of lightly sweetened green tea and it is a beautiful, beautiful thing!

It is just as wonderful when served hot.

The Meng Ding Huang Ya tea is also perfection in a cup… literally. While less sweet, it is easily as delicious as the Meng Ding Mao Feng. It, too, is just as excellent iced as it is hot.

The third tea, Yu Qian Anji Bai Cha might just be the most unique loose green tea (or any loose tea!) I’ve ever tasted. You take a sip and try to identify the wonderful underlying flavor… but you can’t quite come up with it, so you take another sip. Then another. Before you know it, the wonderful (perfectly, perfectly wonderful) cup is completely gone and you’re still left wondering, “What was that delicious flavor in the background?!” After drinking this particular tea for the first time – as well as each subsequent time – the first word to come to mind was, “Intriguing.”

Not, that’s a very special tea!

Truth be told, however, they are all three exceptional teas. When I was thinking through this review, I kept asking myself, “If you were to recommend only ONE for your reader friends to try first, which would it be?” My answer each time I quizzed myself was the same, “I can’t pick just one!”

Masters Tea

Gorgeous, HIGH Quality Teaware

I also ordered a gorgeous tea cup that caught my eye (you can see the beauty in the pictures above and below). It’s the Nami Cup (color: Ash) and no photo does it justice. The size and texture are unlike any tea cup I’ve seen and I’m absolutely in love with it. It was larger than I was expecting, which is always a wonderful surprise. I hope you’ll click through and see all of the gorgeous Teaware (cups, mugs, teapots, infuser sets…). There are beautiful, serene, colors available and these would make EXCELLENT Christmas gifts for the tea lovers on your list. Unique, gorgeous gifts they’ll absolutely love. Be warned, though, when you see these, you’ll want to keep them for yourself.

I’ll never tell!

I hope you’ll visit Masters Teas by Adagio today. You will become obsessed, I guarantee it! ~ Joi


Filed Under: Adagio, Christmas Gift Guide, Gifts for Tea Lovers, Green Tea, Master Teas, Shop, Tea Cups, Tea Reviews Tagged With: green tea review, loose green tea review, Masters Tea Review

10 Benefits of Green Tea (Infographic)

August 31, 2017 by Joi 1 Comment

Health Benefits of Green Tea

What is green tea good for? Read this infographic to discover green tea’s most powerful benefits. Use the embed code to share it on your website.

<img src="http://media.mercola.com/assets/images/infographic/green-tea-benefits.jpg" alt="Health Benefits of Green Tea" border="0" style="max-width:100%; min-width:300px; margin: 0 auto 20px auto; display:block;"><p style="max-width:800px; min-width:300px; margin:0 auto; text-align:center;">What is green tea good for? Read this <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/04/23/green-tea-dementia.aspx">infographic</a> to discover green tea's most powerful benefits.</p>


Filed Under: Green Tea, Health Benefits of Tea Tagged With: benefits of green tea, green tea health benefits, tea infographic

Tea Review: My Green Teapot’s Beautifully Subtle Whole Leaf Green Oolong Teas

February 16, 2017 by Joi Leave a Comment

My Green Teapot Strawberry Green Oolong Tea

I love many things about working from home as a web publisher and blogger, but none any more than doing tea reviews. Come on, what Crazy Tea Chick wouldn’t love everything about that?!  Today’s tea review is for My Green Teapot: a tea company with a beautiful name, beautiful packaging, and beautiful tea.

How are you going to top that?!

I was sent small samples of two of their teas to review. First up is a beautiful, subtle green tea, Strawberry Green Oolong. After one taste, my first thoughts were, “Lovely, soft, and very enjoyable.”  My Green Teapot’s Strawberry Green Oolong Teas are all natural whole leaf teas from Taiwan infused with strawberry.

My Green Teapot Tea

The fact that this tea has a small amount of caffeine makes it one you can enjoy throughout the day.

As with all of my tea reviews, I tried it both hot and iced and, while it was exceptional both ways, I think I prefer it iced because you get more of the strawberry flavor that way. Since strawberry is one of my absolute favorite flavors in the world, the more the better!

Steeping instructions:  8 oz cup   –   195°F   –   1-3 min

My Green Teapot

Before I get to the second My Green Teapot tea, I just want to say a little something about the packaging – it is adorable. I love when companies (tea, chocolate, coffee, food…) put a little extra thought into their packaging. It just makes the entire experience sweeter. These adorable little “Chinese Takeout boxes” are as unique as they are cute. I was going to save them for Christmas packaging but couldn’t get the green teapot sticker off cleanly.

Oh well, they served their purpose – setting a special mood for a couple of special teas.

My Green Teapot Orange Green Oolong Tea

In addition to the Strawberry, I was sent a little sample of the Orange Green Oolong tea and it, too, was wonderfully subtle and altogether lovely. While I didn’t have any oranges on hand (which is odd – I usually have a whole bowlful!), it occurs to me that a slice of fresh orange floated in a hot mug or tall glass of this tea would be a beautiful thing.  This tea was equally delicious hot and cold – I honestly couldn’t decide which one I preferred.

Like the Strawberry Green Oolong, Orange Green Oolong teas are all natural whole leaf teas from Taiwan infused with orange.

My Green Teapot Orange Green Oolong Tea

Steeping instructions:  8 oz cup   –   195°F   –   1-3 min 

I hope you’ll check out My Green Teapot and all of their wonderful natural whole leaf teas. I highly recommend the two I’ve reviewed here.

My Green Teapot Orange Green Oolong Tea

Filed Under: Green Tea, Green Tea, Loose Leaf Tea, Oolong Tea, Orange Tea, Strawberry Tea, Tea Reviews Tagged With: green tea review, loose leaf tea review, oolong tea review, tea reviews

Review: Creme D Orange Green and White Loose Leaf Tea from Kent & Sussex (Amazing!)

July 29, 2016 by Joi Leave a Comment

Creme D Orange Green and White Tea from Kent & Sussex

As I said, emphatically, in my Kent & Sussex Spring Tea Review, the tea lovers at Kent & Sussex Tea & Coffee Company know their tea.  Each loose leaf tea I’ve had from Kent & Sussex has made my top 10 list of all-time favorite teas. The one I’ll review today is no exception – in fact, it’s a strong contender for top 3.  The Creme D Orange Green and White Tea is phenomenal.

Creme D’Orange is a mixture of Green and White Chinese tea, with vanilla flavoring and orange which make absolute magic together. This beautiful tea reminds me of Orange Creamsicles. The vanilla and orange combination is a throwback to a time I grabbed an Orange Creamsicle each time I passed the refrigerator.

If you aren’t familiar with Orange Creamsicles, just know this – the flavor combination is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

Creme D Orange Green and White Tea from Kent & Sussex

Creme D Orange Green and White Tea is fantastic on ice but you get a much heavier vanilla flavor when it’s cold.  The Vanilla/Orange balance is most noticeable when this tea is served hot, and that’s the way I prefer this one.  With the Spring Tea, I love it equally both iced and hot, but with this tea, the hot is just so extraordinary, iced really never stood a chance.

Creme D Orange Green and White Tea from Kent & Sussex

This is a perfect loose leaf tea and I whole-heartedly recommend it. You cannot possibly order it soon enough and you cannot possibly order too much of it.

Ingredients– China Sencha Lung Ching, Yunnan Pai Mu Tan, Rose buds, Vanilla Flavoring, Orange slices and Carrot shreds.

Where to Buy – Find Creme D Orange Green and White Tea on Kent & Sussex Tea & Coffee Company’s website.

Also See: Kent & Sussex Spring Tea Review

Creme D Orange Green and White Tea from Kent & Sussex

Filed Under: Green Tea, Loose Leaf Tea, Shop, Tea, White Tea Tagged With: Kent & Sussex tea, loose tea reviews, orange flavored loose tea, tea reviews, white and green tea reviews

Review: TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea

March 29, 2016 by Joi

TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea
TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea
It’s been my experience that all TAZO teas are delicious and the TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea is certainly no exception.   I buy at least three boxes of TAZO tea each time I go to Target (great selection). If I’m out – or even remotely low – on their Wild Sweet Orange or Passion, I’ll buy those. If I see a new flavor, as long as it isn’t mango (deathly allergic), I’ll also grab a box of it.

This is all, of course, on top of the TAZO Chai Tea Concentrate I can’t possibly live without.

After loading up on the “regulars” last week, I grabbed a box of the TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea to try. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen it, to be honest. It had been tempting me for quite a while. The problem is, though, I’ve been jilted by so many “peach” flavored teas that… well… I’m having to learn to trust again.

{Review continued below….}

TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea
TAZO Organic Peachy Green is Great Hot and Iced
Since TAZO is one of the names I trust the most, I actually accepted its invitation this time and brought it home with me.  Somehow, between leaving Target and getting home with my tea stash, my hopes began to soar so high that the first thing I did was make a cup.

Then another.

It was phenomenal and, honestly, made me forget every peach flavored tea that’d ever broken my heart before.

Peach is one of my favorite flavors in the world, so it frustrates me when teas don’t do right by it. Nine times out of ten, the flavor they call “peach” isn’t even close to the peach I know and love. With TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea, however, I literally knew it was going to be special the second I opened the tea bag. My nose knew even before my taste buds.

The flavor is 110 percent peach… not just a flavor that’s in the neighborhood. What’s more, TAZO did a perfect job of distributing just the right amount. It doesn’t taste like you’re drinking a peach – it tastes like you’re drinking a great cup of green tea that happens to have peach on its mind.

Trust me, it’s a beautiful thing.

This tea is also fantastic iced. A clear indication in my house of how much I love a tea is how fast the box disappears. TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea  has become an “instant legend” in our home – the box was completely empty within 4 days.

Do you have any idea how many cups and glasses of tea that is?!?!

Look for TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea in your local grocery store or Target. You can also find it on Amazon:  TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea.

It’s now joined the ranks of TAZO’s Passion, Sweet Wild Orange, Zen Green Tea, and Chai Tea Concentrate on my trips to Target… If TAZO keeps this up, I’m going to need two carts.

TAZO Organic Peachy Green Tea

Filed Under: Green Tea, Green Tea, Peach Tea, TAZO Teas, Tea, Tea Reviews Tagged With: green tea review, TAZO tea review, tea bag reviews, tea reviews

How Green Tea Helps Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

December 29, 2015 by Joi Leave a Comment

Matcha Tea

Matcha Green Tea

In addition to being a “crazy tea chick” and food blogger, I also write for several other websites I have covering subjects that I’m passionate about. These passions range from cats to Kentucky, from dream analysis to the Golden Age of Hollywood, and from self help to mental fitness. For each subject I “cover,” needless to say, I do a great deal of research and fact-finding.

While working on an article about Foods that Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, two of my world collided when I read that green tea is actually wonderful for brain health.

Rates of dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease (Alzheimer’s is actually a form of dementia) are, tragically, on the rise. Millions of Americans (about 1 in 8 seniors) suffer from Alzheimer’s and it’s the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

Until a cure for Alzheimer’s is discovered (and let’s all pray that this will happen in our lifetime), experts have given us many steps we can take to ward off (or at least delay) the chance of developing the disease.  One of the easiest ways we can put the odds in our favor is to eat the foods that have been proven to benefit our brains (see Brain Food).

An easy way to remember which foods are healthy for your brain is to simply ask yourself which foods are healthy for your heart. The same types of food can be found on both lists.

Green tea is a perfect example. We know it’s healthy for our bodies, but now research shows that it’s also great for our brains. Researchers from the University of Michigan have found that an element in green tea helps stop plaque growth in the brain that’s connected to Alzheimer’s disease.

Whether you drink your green tea iced or hot, know that each cup is great for you – body, mind, and soul.


Filed Under: Green Tea, Health Benefits of Tea, Tea News Tagged With: green tea for brain health, health benefits of green tea, prevent dementia with green tea

Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino With Whipped Topping and Raspberry Syrup on Top

May 5, 2015 by Joi Leave a Comment

Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino
 

I am as big a fan of Starbucks as you’ll ever find. In fact, every member of my family know the “right” thing to get me for Christmas, Mother’s Day, or my birthday is a Starbucks gift card.  One Christmas I racked up 5 and I was in caffeinated bliss for weeks.

The crazy thing is, I never… seriously, never…. order coffee at Starbucks. In the cooler months, I always get a Chai Tea Latte or hot black tea and in the warmer months, my Baristas know exactly what’s coming out of my mouth, “Grande Green Tea Frappuccino with Whipped Topping and Raspberry Syrup on Top.”

It’s absolute perfection and I’m as associated with this drink as Cookie Monster is cookies.  I, admittedly, get as worked up as he does for the object of my affection to.

Years ago, I began ordering the Green Tea Frappe “straight up,” without whipped topping or anything. Honestly, it’s absolutely delicious like that too and sometimes I still order it without the frills. However, I’ve found that a little whipped topping, followed by raspberry syrup on top creates such an incredible work of delicious art that I even dream about it.

Honest.

When you order this masterpiece, you have to be sure to specify, “raspberry syrup on top” plainly or you’ll get it mixed in with the green tea frappe, itself. That’s happened to me before and, while it’s still delicious, it’s just not the same magical drink as you see pictured here.  Without the whipped topping and Raspberry syrup, it’s more like a delicious green tea smootie… add the other two and what you have is Heaven in a plastic cup.

This one’s a real head-turner and tastes even better than it looks.

 

Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino 2

Filed Under: Green Tea, Green Tea, Starbucks Tea Tagged With: Starbucks, Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino

Twinings Green Tea With Mint: Refreshingly Delicious!

June 11, 2013 by Joi Leave a Comment

Twinings Mint Green Tea

I’m not sure why, but when it came to tea  I was slow when it came to jumping on the mint bandwagon. I’ve always grown mint in my herb garden and am obsessed with the smell, but the thought of flavoring food or drinks with it never seemed like an attractive idea.  I’d read raving reviews about mint tea and pretty much shake my head wondering, “How could people even do that?!”

Now I know – because the results are breathtaking!

One of my favorite new teas I’ve tried is Green Tea with Mint from Twinings.  This tea is extraordinary.   You can always judge how wonderful a tea is by how fast it disappears from our tea shelf.  This one may have broken a record. I bought a box on a Saturday and by Wednesday it was completely gone.

Suffice to say I love, love, love this tea.

I’ve probably mentioned this before, but when doing a review (whether it’s one of my Kentucky restaurant reviews, food blog reviews, book reviews, or tea reviews), I pay particularly close attention to the first words that come to mind.  After one sip of Twinings Mint Green Tea, the first three words that came to mind were refreshing, delicious, and wow.  Wow’s always good.

The second thing I thought was that I should have bought 2 boxes instead of just 1. I knew this one wasn’t going to last long.

If you can’t find Twinings Cold Brewed Iced Tea Green Tea with Mint in your favorite store, click the link and order a box from Amazon.

Better make that 2 boxes….

Filed Under: Green Tea, Iced Tea, Tea, Twinings Tagged With: iced tea reviews, mint green tea, tea reviews, Twinings mint green tea, Twinings tea reviews

Lower Your Cholesterol, Naturally, with Green Tea

March 5, 2013 by Joi Leave a Comment

Inspiring Green Tea
Everyday Health recently published a great slideshow showing ways to Lower Your Cholesterol in Five Minutes or Less. Click the link to see all the potentially life-saving tips.

One of these tips was of great interest to those of us who love tea.

From Everyday Health:

Research reviewing 20 studies, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, found that sipping green tea reduces LDL by an average of 5.30 mg/dL, though the amount of green tea sipped varied widely from one study to the next. The secret ingredient in green tea to help lower your cholesterol? Antioxidants called catechins. One cup has between 50 and 100 mg of catechins. Get out your mug — across the studies, participants had between 3 and 10 cups a day.

You’ll definitely want to see the rest of the tips. Interestingly enough, there are many everyday things we can do that’ll help keep our cholesterol levels in a healthy range. Things that don’t involve medication… most of us are all for that! See Lower Your Cholesterol in Five Minutes or Less for more information.

Filed Under: Green Tea, Health Benefits of Tea Tagged With: green tea, health benefits of green tea, health benefits of tea

Live Longer by Drinking Green Tea and Black Tea

February 20, 2013 by Joi Leave a Comment

Live longer by drinking tea.

I do a great deal of reading about nutrition, heart health, mental health, and living longer (and better!).  While I do a great deal of research on these subjects for my self help blog and mental fitness blog, the main reason I do so much “healthy reading” is to keep my loved ones, and myself, as healthy as possible.

This morning, I read a great article on Prevention.com called “How Long Will I Live: Surprising Signs You’ll Live to Be 100?”  The gist of the article was for the reader to learn what things he/she was doing right and what things they might want to consider doing. If, that is, they want to live as long and as healthy as possible.

As I was reading along, I’d think things like, “Good, I do that…” or “Ooops, I’m dropping the ball there.”  When I came to the tip below, I thought, “I’m all over this one!”

Surprising Signs You’ll Live to be 100: You’re a Tea Lover

Both green and black teas contain a concentrated dose of catechins, substances that help blood vessels relax and protect your heart. In a study of more than 40,500 Japanese men and women, those who drank 5 or more cups of green tea every day had the lowest risk of dying from heart disease and stroke. Other studies involving black tea showed similar results.

You really need only 1 or 2 cups of tea daily to start doing your heart some good—just make sure it’s a fresh brew. Ready-to-drink teas (the kind you find in the supermarket beverage section) don’t offer the same health benefits. “Once water is added to tea leaves, their catechins degrade within a few days,” says Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University. Also, some studies show that adding milk may eliminate tea’s protective effects on the cardiovascular system, so stick to just lemon or honey.

I’ve always loved tea and tend to drink, not only my own share, but a family of eight’s share as well.  I started drinking EVEN more tea when I reluctantly kicked my diet soft drink habit a short while back. Giving up drinks that were filled with things that were BAD for me and replacing them with drinks filled with things that were GREAT for me was one of the smartest things I ever did.

If you’re trying to give up soft drinks or diet soft drinks, stick with it.  It’s tough, I know that as well as anyone.  However, tea is a fantastic replacement. It’s delicious, healthy, refreshing, and has no downside.   I found that, for some reason, while trying to kick the soft drink habit, it helped if my black tea was extra strong. You may also find that adding lemon and/or honey will make it even more enjoyable as well.

Read the great article in its entirety: How Long Will I Live: Surprising Signs You’ll Live to Be 100

Filed Under: Black Tea, Green Tea, Health Benefits of Tea Tagged With: health benefits of black tea, health benefits of green tea, live longer by drinking tea

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