1403 Tasting Notes
I cracked open the brand new sampler pouch that I had been saving for a day exactly like today.
Man, is it flipping’ cold out there. 30 below zero with the windchill and prediction of 35 overnight to be exact. And every single bus or streetcar that I was waiting for was at least a 30 minute wait for each one to arrive.
My hands and thighs and toes are still defrosting and I am delighted that my nose is still attached to my face.
The tea is smoky peach deliciousness and once I was able to board a vehicle once it finally got there and my hands warmed sufficiently that I could open the screw top of my carry mug, I was over the moon to have had this with me.
Smoky sweetness on a black base is such a great thing to have on such a deeply frigid day.
This will be the second day sipping on this loveliness. The Bai Mu Dan base is super awesome and the delicate pineapple and Angel Food Cream cake overlay is an ideal accompaniment.
I am not a huge white tea fan but this here is the business: gentle but full flavours with a hint of sweetness. A bit of a celestial cloud this tea is.
I will mention here that I reached for this tea first thing upon waking, a white tea first for me who usually wakes with black or oolong and sometimes green. And this on a day that I am already exhausted and feeling poorly but will be looking forward to a good bit of shovelling the thigh high white fluff outside. So yeah, this.
Yeah, I was tired today but DIDN’T have a black tea this morning. Seeing that pale brew early in the morning was a very different experience. haha Hopefully the shoveling isn’t too bad… but you said thigh high. oh crap.
Thanks, tea-sipper. The snow was dense but relatively light, so not as laborious as it appeared. But yeah, thigh-high, but it has stopped snowing for now, so yay! The parts that had been shovelled look as if the excess has been sliced away. Love that look.
Yeah, but the snow would be more interesting if it wouldn’t stay around for half the year (ick, I just reminded myself that.)
hahahhaa, tough call. I’ll take the snow over the humidity torment though.
Yes, it was exactly this tea that I was drinking yesterday. The coconut added the silky cream element to the pineapple and smooth white base. The kumquat was missing entirely in this spoon of leaf. So was the ginger in the hot steep.
However, the ginger came out rather feistily after a night cold steeping.
I hadn’t really expected much from this blend, but it was a fine one.
This could well be the one I am drinking at the moment. And if so, it is very delicious :)
When I opened the packet, I was worried about the coconut. Will this be the first and only blend of Anne’s in which the coconut has gone off? Nope, it is perfectly fine.
On my third steep and then added cold water to the leaves to see what comes of it overnight.
White tea is not my usual go-to, but when I do get around to it, I enjoy it immensely.
YASSSSSS, Leafhopper, you are a superstar.
Now if I could only remember what I was planning on saying about this one.
Oooooh, yes. I have found that this is a serviceable travel tea that handles travel mug treatment reasonably well with even the occasional creamy fizzy sip of ice cream melting in a soda. And the root beer is spot on. And the base is perfection for this blend.This is not an absolute favourite, but it is damn fine masterful blending, nonetheless.
Tea sounds great… The 30 below doesn’t :(. Stay safe!
Buses do seem to be super late on cold days. Keep warm!
Thanks all, somehow I survived. We all did, as far as I know. But damn it was cold. However, on the most frigid days, the air and light is so bright, like crystal, so when you are walking in the daytime, everything, no matter how mundane, is sparklingly beautiful. So there is the pleasure of that.