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Heritage Aijiao from Red Blossom Tea Company
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Ommity nommity nom.

I’m freezing my little butt to pieces and I can’t understand where the entire evening went. How can it be twenty to nine already?

Aijiao to the rescue!

That chocolate-y note is super-strong in the aroma today, and the more spicy, wood-y bottom note is almost completely covered by it. It smells like hot chocolate and warm milk and a wee bit of spice.

I could just smell this all day. Or what’s left of it, anyway.

Oh gosh, steepsterites, I just took a sip! If I could rhyme I would write an epic poem. Hmmm…

Ode to Aijiao

Oh Aijiao, you are a lovely tea,
come out of my cup and into me.

I nom your every last drop,
Please leaves, don’t ever stop

being so awesome and delicious!
It makes me feel quite suspicious

that I’ll never get over the ginormous loss
when the last of the leaves in the pot I’ll toss.

Your notes of chocolate I will miss
along with aroma of tea-ful bliss.

Your full-bodied flavour is something to try
and when it is gone I surely will cry.

I have one round left now, two if I’m lucky,
and will end the Ode here, as my rhyming is sucky.

… No, it really wouldn’t work, would it? I’ll leave the poetry to those as have the talent and just drink the tea.

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Comments

Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith 2011-01-30 20:07:10 -0500

I absolutely love your poem and it is making me go and refresh my supply of this tea!!!

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Angrboda felt her bio needed to be re-written, but she failed to consider what she wanted it to say instead.

Um…

Okay. Ang prefers black teas and the darker sorts of oolongs. She has to be in the mood for green and white and she enjoys, but knows little to nothing about, pu-erh.

Her preferences with black teas are the Chinese ones, particularly from Fujian, but also Keemun and just about anything smoky. She occasionally enjoys Yunnans but they’re not favourites.

She is sceptical about Indian blacks as she generally finds them too astringent and too easy to get wrong. She doesn’t really care for Darjeelings at all.

She likes flavoured teas as well, particularly fruit flavoured ones, but also has an obsession with finding the Perfect Vanilla Flavoured Black.

However, she thinks Earl Grey is generally kind of boring. Cinnamon and ginger are also not really a hit, and she’s not very fond of chais. Evil hibiscus is evil. Even in small amounts, and yes, Ang can usually detect hibiscus, mostly by way of the metallic flavour of blood it has.

Ang is not super impressed with rooibos or honeybush. She doesn’t care for either, really, but when they are flavoured, there have been known to be surprising exceptions to this rule.

Ang has a number of teas that she regards her Standard Panel and will always try to have on hand.
-Lapsang Souchong, any brand really, but preferably AC Perchs.
-Blackberry flavoured black or similar, any brand.
-Late Summer Blend, AC Perchs
-Raspberry Oolong, AC Perchs OR Red Fruits Oolong, Le Palais des Thes
-Caramel, Kusmi OR Toffee, Le Palais des Thes
-Something orange flavoured, black or pu-erh, any brand.
-Tan Yang Te Ji, Teaspring OR Bai Lin Gongfu, Teavivre
-A good Keemun, any brand.
-The Perfect Vanilla Black if and when she ever finds it…

Angrboda is almost always open to swapping. Just ask her.

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