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“Ok so I brought home a couple of tea bags from my conference :) i didn’t drink any decaf black teas while I was there. I wanted to make sure I had caffeine in my tea. Anyways this is a nice medium...” Read full tasting note
“Got back on Tuesday from a Seattle-Portland-Victoria vacation with mom and aunts. One of our stops was at the Willow Stream Spa at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria (can’t vacay without a spa stop,...” Read full tasting note
Cup Characteristics: Superb, full tea taste with delicious malty notes reminiscent of caramel. Excellent depth and a lovely rosy cup.
Ingredients: Luxury decaffeinated black tea.
Tea Story:
How does one encapsulate the relaxing experience of a 5 star spa visit in a cup of tea? Not easily. First of all, the cup should be decaffeinated for a soothing mellow touch. Secondly, it should have a 5 star flavor profile. So it follows that one should source a 5 star decaffeinated tea. 5 star decafs aren’t a dime a dozen however. In fact to source such a tea you have but one destination, Naming’omba, a small co-op estate in Malawi.
While Malawi is not generally known for producing top quality caffeinated teas, Naming’omba decaffeinated product is among the finest on the world markets. The reason? Naming’omba is one of the only places on earth where decaf tea is produced on the estate grounds. In most producing countries, decafs are processed first as regular caffeinated teas and then shipped to Europe to be stripped of their caffeine in a secondary process. The methods by which this typically happens are the CO2 and Methyl Chloride. Both effectively strip the caffeine from the leaf but can add an aftertaste that alters the pure flavor of the tea.
At Naming’omba the tea is decaffeinated before processing when the leaf is still fresh and a deep emerald green. The result is a cup with brightness of color and full-bodied flavor not normally found in a decaf tea. In fact, the tea is so good that many professional tasters have been fooled into believing that it is in fact a regular caffeinated tea. We’re pleased to offer this exceptional decaf exclusively to Fairmont.
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Ok so I brought home a couple of tea bags from my conference :) i didn’t drink any decaf black teas while I was there. I wanted to make sure I had caffeine in my tea. Anyways this is a nice medium strength tea. It doesn’t say specifically how it is decaffeinated but I am guessing it is done via the CO2 method as opposed to the chemical method but I don’t know for sure.
I unfortunately added milk and honey to this cup before I tried the tea so I can’t say for sure but I think I could drink this straight or with just a bit of milk. I will have to try that with my other tea bag!
Got back on Tuesday from a Seattle-Portland-Victoria vacation with mom and aunts. One of our stops was at the Willow Stream Spa at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria (can’t vacay without a spa stop, y’know). I picked this up there, untasted and untested.
It’s not bad. If I didn’t have the package description to refer to, I’d swear this was blackcurrant. And it has a distinctly grapey taste as well. It’s smooth and not overly heavy. I’m not sure how they decaffeinate it “on the estate” and how that really differs from doing it somewhere else but it doesn’t really matter to me. I’d have bought this with or without the caffeine just to try it. I don’t see myself reaching for this over my other teas, but I’ll throw a couple of bags in the travel tea snob tea wallet just in case of emergency.
In other tea news, I purchased my first yixing pot while in Seattle. It is highly likely to not be real yixing, but it’s clay and it’s cute. And shortly after that I purchased my second clay pot. Just too cute and too reasonably priced. Seasoning the tortoise and the hare for golden monkey and the dragon for bi luo chun types. Probably don’t need different pots for them since they are similar in flavor profile but, shrug, why not. :) And my auntie got a cool tea for one set for me at Queen Mary in Seattle. I love the unusual handles and that the cup is on a pedestal.
