My 3rd tea from 2016 Dark Matter. After seeing no real reviews except for LP’s raving, I decided to give this one a go as it had caught my eye from the moment I first saw “Pine Needle”. Forgive my still-developing pallet if I can’t do it justice with my description:
“That’s an odd name,” I thought, but the taste is a far cry from anything pine. It has a nice, creamy mouth-feel and it goes down silky smooth. I heard of all these chocolate flavors and smells in other reviews on other teas but I had never experienced one until now. There’s a definite, strong dark chocolate smell to the tea that was so surprising I had to ask my girlfriend to smell the lid of my gaiwan to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating it. The malt and hay flavors are present throughout and compliment the chocolaty flavors nicely. It ends light and sweet and left a chocolate covered cherry smell in my little 50ml cup. I lost track but got almost 10 solid steeps out of it as far as I can figure. This is my favorite of the 2016 Dark Matter so far and I will inevitably buy more when I can find it on the Life in a Teacup website (halp?). It’s just that good.https://www.instagram.com/p/BEMtbonj_SD/?taken-by=pyramid_king_brandon
Flavors: Dark Chocolate, Hay, Malt
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Here you go… http://www.lifeinteacup.com/ He may not have the Pine Needle listed. I find the website awkward, but you can e-mail him [email protected] and he is very responsive.
Yeah I second the awkward website notion. I don’t see it using the search function so it looks like I’m going to e-mail. Thank you for your help!
My pleasure. The site owners are on retreat until 4/20, I think, so until then, you will just get a generic response. If you do order, try the Tie Guan Yin Red (Black) tea. That is how it is listed. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Here you go… http://www.lifeinteacup.com/ He may not have the Pine Needle listed. I find the website awkward, but you can e-mail him [email protected] and he is very responsive.
Yeah I second the awkward website notion. I don’t see it using the search function so it looks like I’m going to e-mail. Thank you for your help!
My pleasure. The site owners are on retreat until 4/20, I think, so until then, you will just get a generic response. If you do order, try the Tie Guan Yin Red (Black) tea. That is how it is listed. I think you’ll enjoy it.