Taken with a pinch of sugar. Nothing like I thought it was going to be like – I was thinking a Constant Comment type tea. I really like it!!! I’m not tasting a lot of spice, or your typical citrus. I taste citrus fruit peel. Some lemongrass. It actually reminds me of a Kusmi-type tea – really nice black tea that tastes great without milk and has many different subtle, interesting, delightful flavors. Perfect on this rainy, cool morning.
I love to cook, bake, read, paint, knit, do needlework, and garden. I need my coffee, but I LOVE my tea. I work at an Art School, and attend a large public university doing post-bac work (my BA is in English). I’m interested in the liminal spaces between art and craft, the academic and the practical, the individual and community, and the old and the new. I’m currently exploring these ideas through the disciplines of education, literature, history, and psychology.
I enjoy writing tasting notes, but have decided not to numerically rate teas as of 9/14/10. For an explanation, see my looooong tasting note about Mountain Malt from the Simple Leaf.
My favorites:
Chinese black teas
A good “milk and sugar” English style black
Earl Grey (classic, and in all variations!)
Vanilla teas (classic, and in all variations!)
Jasmine, Rose, Violet and other froofy, flowery teas!
An Occasional Oolong
Flavored Rooibos
Herbal Tisanes
Collingswood, NJ
