I am absolutely lovesick with this Earl Grey!!! That excellent tea base makes me swoon. Round and full of flavor – today it was just the slightest bit chocolatey, and that flavor mixed with the subtle bergamot!!!??? Oh boy, it’s GOOD! I also love the fact that you can get two excellent steeps from it. That tea base!!! Did I mention the tea base? ;)
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
My very favorite Earl! I love those Ceylon silver tips mixed in this.
I will have to order some of this… I’m in desperate need of a really good earl grey blend!