Revolution Tea

drinking it plain today, to cut the richness of some leftover Quiche Lorraine.

Not quite as good as the cup my hubby made me Saturday. Wondering what his ideal ratio of tea/sugar/milk was…

I don’t know exactly how much milk and sugar my hubby added to my mug, but it was PERFECT this am. Sweet, creamy , floral. A heavenly cup of tea for a Sunday morning

the lavender is lighter than I remembered, but I may have drowned it with milk and raw sugar. anyway, a good morning cup and nice change.

the lavender is not overwhelming – more scent than flavour. A nice change from “plain” Earl Grey or Lady Grey.

My favorite oolong, I drink while I clean. So many things accumulated here that will now be better served by being moved to the Dumpster. I’ll try not to do this again.

First found at PF Chang’s Chinese Bistro.

Many things can be done while enjoying tea.

The second most important is spending time thinking about life. Your job, your soul, your significant other, your money.

The first most important thing is not.

This is the tea you want when a hurricane is bearing down on your dwelling – sweet, light and soothing.

I don’t detect a lot of pear flavor, but I suspect that is what is adding the sweetness.

The package recommendation for steeping was 2-3 minutes. My first try on this was 4 minutes. The color was a little stronger than other white teas I’ve tried, which may be due to the longer steep.

A good balance of flavors. Light and fruity, just the way I like my tea :)

So, I tried the tea again with a shot of real cream. Much better! It really brought out the lavender flavor. Nom….

Just tried the Earl Grey Lavender by Revolution Tea. The aroma of the tea was heavenly. But I’m finding myself a little dissapointed by the taste results. I am finding I like stronger flavored teas and this one was a little weak for me, although I did steep for at least 5 minutes. I couldn’t really taste the lavender like I hoped. It’s not bad at all! It’s just not as lovely as I was hoping it might be.

Everything about this tea is slick. It’s packaged in a triangular patent-pending tin, and even though the name is Earl Grey Lavender, you have to read the small print to see that there’s oolong blended in too. It’s a nice surprise — I always seem to forget it’s in there until I pick up the cup.

This is a pretty good tea. I also like that Revolution carries it in Decaf!

It rained yesterday, crescendo style. Drizzled all morning, and gradually became stronger until by the time 8 PM rolled around it was heartily Riverdancing on the rooftop. My sleep schedule is so screwy right now; I’d planned to go to bed early but there’s no way that was going to happen. So I went upstairs to catch up on some TV.

About 15 minutes into it I decided that I wanted some tea, but I was too lazy to go back and get some so I ransacked the cabinets instead. The findings were meager, since I don’t really keep a lot of stuff in the kitchen, but I found this and thought, eh, sure.

I was pleasantly surprised on two accounts. One, that I could taste it at all. [Seems I’m seriously on the mend, which is cause for my own Michael Flatley impression.] But two, that I found it enjoyable, because, being honest, I was approaching it with the mindset of wanting something hot and steaming more than expecting something good.

The steep time is SHORT. Like 30 to 60 seconds, which is something that I can’t recall coming across before. For someone with my kind of limitations on patience, however, this is a nice bonus. I let it go for the full 60. I also don’t have the means to gauge any temperature besides boiling in the kitchen, so I approximated as best I could and shut the stove off when I saw steam.

The ones I had came in a little round sachet, but didn’t have a string attached with which to pull it out. It was a minor nuisance, but maybe that’s common-ish practice with bagged tea and I just don’t drink enough of it. It’s also a rather flat package. Tea Forte is really the only bagged variety I drink on the semi-regular, and I know that a number of other brands are starting to offer the pyramidal bags now. I can’t imagine that the tea has a lot of room to expand in there, but I didn’t examine it too closely because I wanted to get back to my stories.

And so I found myself sitting on the floor, watching Castle [which is awesome and I highly recommend it], with a blanket and the rain calling a war meeting overhead and a cup of tea in hand. It made for a lovely experience. [Especially since the show open of this particular episode – the Halloween one – made me whoop out loud.]

The tea was light and warm, which suited my mood quite well. It was also sweet in an almost granulated kind of way, but there was some fruitiness to it as well. It wasn’t pear that I was picking out of it. It was something that bore resemblance to fruit, though. The tea on the whole didn’t have a whole lot of depth. The taste was pleasant, however, and I wasn’t looking for complexity. Apparently there are actual pear bits in it, too, so I might need to give it some extra attention on a later date.

It is so very hard to concentrate on anything else when Nathan Fillion’s on the screen, being all funny and Nathan Fillion-y.

This is my favorite Earl Grey tea! It tastes good hot or iced.

An excellent Earl Grey, with a lovely fragrance, but I can’t detect much flavor from the lavender.

This is quite delightful! It’s good on its own or as part of an iced tea pitcher. It has a very fresh flavor.

Still the best bagged chai I’ve found.