JacquelineM

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JacquelineM drank Vanilla Black by Harney & Sons

I am not proud to admit this, but I grunted when I tasted this tea. Not a mmmmm or an ahhhh but an absolute grunt like a pig. It touched the primal vanilla loving animal in me (who I have just discovered is porcine). I guess it could have been worse — at least I didn’t oink!

A subtle and delicious vanilla bean flavor. Slightly rubbery/tarry/dark (that’s a compliment) and the tea base is WONDERFUL. Smooth and flavorful and not the least bit bitter. Extremely elegant. Perfect. I’m drinking it with some sugar and milk, and it’s just lovely. Harney and Sons describes it as baking sugar cookies with your grandmother, but I completely disagree. It’s more like being served shortbread with your grandmother…the Dowager Countess!

…which makes my grunt even more inappropriate! I hope I can learn to control myself around this tea!

In short, I love it.

2012-11-02 19:22:03 -0400

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BoxerMama 2012-11-02 20:15:38 -0400

I ordered a sample of it with my last order and drank 4 cups back to back!

CupofTree 2012-11-02 20:22:19 -0400

This one is definitely on my shopping list thanks to your review, oink!

Sil 2012-11-02 20:30:59 -0400

Oh man… I need to try this!

ashmanra 2012-11-02 21:07:26 -0400

Is this your first time having Vanilla Black? This is one I had to buy by the pound because my youngest went through it so fast!

The Purrfect Cup 2012-11-02 21:09:29 -0400

Might have to try this one!

Bonnie 2012-11-02 21:16:02 -0400

I like the grunt admission!

Nicole 2012-11-02 22:11:08 -0400

Vanilla loving porcine. I love it.

Mélissa 2012-11-02 23:32:18 -0400

Fabulous, absolutely.

Ruby Woo Scarlett 2012-11-03 03:00:40 -0400

Lovely note, Jackie. ‘It’s more like being served shortbread with your grandmother…the Dowager Countess!’ I miss elegant teas, I haven’t had any in a while and I see what you mean.

JacquelineM 2012-11-03 07:13:35 -0400

ashmanra – I knew I was going to love it because your daughter loved it so much, but I didn’t know I was going to grunt! I was waiting until I was finished my other vanilla tea before I bought this one. I think I found a new cupboard staple, to put it mildly!

gmathis 2012-11-03 08:20:40 -0400

Oh, my..I don’t know which I’d enjoy more: tea with Maggie Smith or tea with E.B. White (with Charlotte in the corner busily spinning SOME TEA.)

ashmanra 2012-11-03 08:31:05 -0400

I am glad you found a new, grunt-worthy tea love! It is delicious! Daughter was in such a panic about running out when she was about twelve that a friend gave us four ounces to tide her over until my order could arrive. Said friend also ordered it by the pound, LOL! And I did pay her back! :)

Angrboda 2012-11-03 14:15:56 -0400

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