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I am so sad that Drink the Leaf is closing. This is my all time favorite tea. I am kicking myself for not ordering a few weeks back when I had the chance. I did grab a new teapot and a Timolino in ocean blue for 50% off!
I have not been drinking hot tea, it is hot enough here in Texas. Tonight I made a teapot and savored each sip. So light and sippable. No astringency. Orange tones hit as I swallow the best Ceylon base. I am sadly in tea bliss.

Emptied my cute tin and enjoyed my last pot of this tea. A great blend that I will miss in my cupboard

This has been my morning tea for the past month or so, great brisk flavor. A perfext start to each and every day.

Have not had this tea for way too long. This is my go to tea when I am wanting ice cream and not willing to just go ahead and have ice cream. Tea seemed like a better choice today…yea for me..making a good nutritional decision, really this is a no brainer cuz this is really good tea:)

Thank you Terri harplady for this wonderful brew:)
This is soooo tasty, I have added it to my shopping list. This is smooth, fragrant and essentially delicious.

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Hello old friend. The perfect cup of Ceylon tea with an orange hit.

I find myself choosing this one over and over. Ceylon base is perfectly balanced and the sweet punch of peaches takes this simple bagged tea over the top. Must buy more:)

This is soooooo goooood. Added milk and sugar=perfection. Creamy, bergamot sits nicely in the background.

Oh, how I love you PG Tips, let me count the ways….
The rich flavor
The briskness of the blend
The addition of sugar and milk yields a caramel color brew in my cuppa=perfection!
The small white teapot dedicated to pleasing my eye as the tea pours from the spout
And, who could forget the Monkey!? Not me! Everytime, I drink tips , I think of this video clip:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=BTnRqJLJhCw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBTnRqJLJhCw
Spendid!!!!

TTB A sample #2
A black chai blend, this seems promising….brewing….brewing…..sipping….nice, very drinkable. Caramel notes come through nicely with an almond note at the end. I am drinking this with no additions.

TTB A sampler #1
The tea leaves remind me of Blood orange black from Drink the leaf with one exception: rose petals. The smell is very petallie….brewing…brewing…brewing…sip one….it is like drinking a cup of perfume. If you like that sort of thing, this may be it! Down the drain.

Today, I am not feeling well. Today, will be a honeybush day. I started my day off with Cinnamon Roll Honeybush. It smells just like a cinnamon roll! I don’t know how Frank does it, but all of his HB blends are just fantastic. A six minute brew yielded a mild, tasty cuppa.

Part of my saturday sampler day. Ground up cinnamon and plum. Time to break put the Chatsford infuser basket. Tart, cinnamon. On first sip, I did not think it was very good, but I continued to sip and found it to be tasty and a nice edition to evening tea choices.

Part of saturday sampler day. Very light on the plum and spice and thankfully light on the green tea. This is ok if it were the only thing available, I would drink it.

At first glance of the tea description…rose petals ugh…smoke ugh! But I am pleasantly surprised at the layers of flavor. First, you smell the smokiness, but it is not the over the top smokey, just a slight smoke. Second, you taste a delicate backdrop of black teas and then on the back of your tongue the cream of a rose. I have not added milk or sugar this time.

Smooth. I have missed drinking this…added a bit of sugar crystals in brew basket. Three minute infusion. Yum.

Almost out of this tea. It is fruity with a bit of ginger bite. Great afternoon tea.

I love this tea. Smooth, comforting, takes milk really well. If you have trouble enjoying this tea, try making it with 9 ounces of water instead of 6 and a brew time of 2 minutes. I do make this in a small teapot, which I feel adds depth to the brew. Once I stumbled on this ratio, my love for this tea grew. AND you gotta love the monkey!

Daughter brought this to me over the weekend…a blend of three teas…three is my favorite number. The verdict, it is ok. I only brewed this two minutes and I think that was enough time to being out the three favors. Will I buy it again? No, but it is nice for a surprise:)

I always keep this on hand. It is a fully peppermint infusion. Love the aroma.

I mixed one tsp of this with some spent blood orange black leaves. Perfection in a cup the peppermint shines through beautifully!

Smells like a vanilla pie out of the bag. I have never had a vanilla pie, but this is what it would smell like and taste like. Very creamy and rich. I will be honest here, I have not tried this plain, I have used this to mix with other flavored matchas. This blend is the best mixer in terms of adding dimension to another flavor, it just seems to bump up the delicious factor on any other matcha in my cupboard. I highly recommend this matcha, the vanilla is the best I have experienced in a a tea, and I have tried several vanilla teas in my tea drinking career. Head on over to Redleaf Tea and pick up your own bag of this wonderfully flavored matcha:
http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/madagascar-vanilla-matcha.html
Adding this Madasgascar Vanilla to the Pumpkin pie matcha really bumps up the creaminess of the Pumpkin and adds the right amount of smoothness to make this one blend I don’t seem to get tired prof drinking every morning. Vanilla chai was my first tea love, I drank boxes of Bigelowes Vanilla Chai tea, I knew the minute I ordered this MV matcha that I would be mixing it with my chai matcha and you know what? I am in love with this flavor profile all over again, except that now I have the antioxidant properties of a good matcha and a superb Madasgascar Vanilla in my cup.

Picked another box of this at my local grocery store. I really enjoy drinking
this after a meal, the peppermint comes through first followed by a creaminess that is very satisfying.