Dry, this smells like straw. Not hay, but straw, if you are farm enough to know the difference. :) The year that Grandpa planted a field with wheat my brother and I got a straw fort after the harvest. This tea smelled just like that fort.
Steeped, it’s wheaty, sweetish, honeyish, mildly malty and just fantastic. I just got a sample of this one. I wish now I’d gotten a full package. I need to try this back to back with Harney’s Golden Monkey. I suspect this one will come out on top.
The shipping was amazingly fast considering it was overseas. I was a bit disappointed that although the website said free shipping with orders over $30 when I went to Paypal it charged me shipping. But it wasn’t enough to put me off of completing my order. :) Truthfully, it was extremely reasonable shipping for international. Less than some domestic shipping I’ve paid.
And now I’m unsubscribing from the Misc. Sales thread and not trying any more teas from any swaps! Not for awhile. I have been spending like a drunken sailor only on a tea binge. I can’t keep doing this every couple of months! My husband started linking our bank accounts to some financial tracking software and while he never says anything about my tea spending, he can now see just how much I’m buying. Eeek!
I don’t know how to cross out stuff, or I would cross out the shipping part. Angel at Teavivre very helpfully offered to check on the shipping issue and it turns out that although Paypal had me choose shipping with a cost, I was not actually charged any shipping. Add to the excellent tea, excellent customer service, as many others on Steepster have noted. :)
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Taking an imaginary sniff right now. Yum!
you bad drunken sailor you! lol
:)
This is a lovely tea! I share yourtea binge ordering habits…currently on good behavior, but I have a Verdant tea cash thingy I need to use by the 28th, so guess who’d gonna be placing an order this week…
The website must have glitched on you. As I remember I had to bypass Paypal on the first page and selected it later. This is one of my very favorite teas. Good luck going binge free.
Taking an imaginary sniff right now. Yum!
you bad drunken sailor you! lol
:)
This is a lovely tea! I share yourtea binge ordering habits…currently on good behavior, but I have a Verdant tea cash thingy I need to use by the 28th, so guess who’d gonna be placing an order this week…
The website must have glitched on you. As I remember I had to bypass Paypal on the first page and selected it later. This is one of my very favorite teas. Good luck going binge free.