Dinosara

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Oriental Spice from The Tea House - Covent Garden

Dinosara drank Oriental Spice by The Tea House - Covent Garden

Unfortunately not a sipdown, I have one more serving of this. Made it with sugar and milk, because otherwise the black base is bitter and astringent. This is a flavor combination that I thought I would like early on in my tea explorations, but apparently I’m just not that much of a fan of it. It’s ok, but I certainly don’t want to add any more to my stash. Today this one tastes mostly like crappy black tea with a hint of spices. Should have brewed it in hot chocolate like I did last time!

2013-03-03 15:09:07 -0500

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I am tea obsessed, with the stash to match. I tend to really enjoy green oolongs, Chinese blacks, and flavored teas with high quality bases, especially florals, bergamot-based teas, and chocolate teas.

I’m a grad student and in my free time I am a birder, baker, and music/movie/tv addict.

I have an Adagio Teas UtiliTEA kettle and a Tea Forté Kati cup for brewing. I also have a Chinese Ru Kiln tea set for gongfu brewing.

Here are my rating categories, FYI:
100-90: These teas are mind-blowingly good to me.
89-80: I really really like these teas and will keep most of them in the permanent collection, but they’re not quite as spectacular as the top category
79-70: Tasty teas that I enjoy, but definitely won’t rebuy when I run out.
69-65: Teas that I would probably drink again, but wouldn’t seek out. They don’t quite do it for me in one aspect or another; often just not quite my style
64-60: Teas that I don’t really enjoy all that much and wouldn’t drink another cup of.
59-50: Bleh. I usually choose not to finish the cup because life’s too short to drink tea I dislike.
49 and below: Mega yuck. This tea is just disgusting to me.