I’m just back from World Tea East so you’ll be seeing quite a few tea reviews from that here and on the blog. But I also had the pleasure of meeting Stacy, owner of Butiki Teas there. She was even a sweetheart and brought me some samples. This one caught my eye when I openend her bag this afternoon. I love anything that has maple flavor to it and I really like oolongs. So I was hoping this would be as good as it sounded.
The dry leaf smells very much of maple and I loved the large pieces of pecan too. Yes I ate a piece too, yum! I followed the directions Stacy gave me which listed the temp for the water to be 170…I’ve always done mine higher, but I went with her suggestions. I waited the time suggested (4 minutes), removed my steeping basket, gave it a small hit of vanilla sugar, a stir and a first sip.
Let me back up a moment. The smell of the steeped leaves brings out a little bit of a citrus flavor that does play nice with the other flavors (to my surprise). Now to the first sip…wow! She mentioned it would taste a little like pecan pie, I’m not a fan of that, but if it tasted like this I could turn into one. Slightly sweet, with the citrus, plus the slightly maybe woodsy flavor of the oolong (odd maybe but that’s what I’m getting) and I am loving it.
I wish I was getting more from the pecans, but that is really my only complaint here.
Thank you very much for the sample!!
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How exciting! I hope you had an awesome trip, I’ll definitely be stalking your reviews :)
I would love to have the opportunity to meet any of the owners of the online tea retailers with a presence here on Steepster, let alone meet the owner of Butiki Teas. Did you meet any other interesting people in the Tea World there?
I met John Harney and son Michael again, James Norwood Pratt, Jane Pettegrew and loads of company owners. It was good times.
Awesome. Would love to meet them all. Someday, perhaps.
Wow—that’s almost like meeting rock stars!
gmathis-Well, John Harney was singing. A song about Paris I believe. He is such a character and his son was nice enough to show me pictures from his trip to the Huangshan area.
I still think we should have a Steepster convention!
Yes John Harney was singing I love Paris in the Springtime and a few other oldies…which was interesting and awesome at the same time! Michael Harney was good enough to share some of their super special tea with a few of us too. Wild times!
Yes, that was the song. I was trying to remember which song he was singing. I love the atmosphere and the people at the convention. Everyone is always in great spirits. It was interesting because the convention next to World Tea East had a completely different vibe.
How exciting! I hope you had an awesome trip, I’ll definitely be stalking your reviews :)
I would love to have the opportunity to meet any of the owners of the online tea retailers with a presence here on Steepster, let alone meet the owner of Butiki Teas. Did you meet any other interesting people in the Tea World there?
I met John Harney and son Michael again, James Norwood Pratt, Jane Pettegrew and loads of company owners. It was good times.
Awesome. Would love to meet them all. Someday, perhaps.
Wow—that’s almost like meeting rock stars!
gmathis-Well, John Harney was singing. A song about Paris I believe. He is such a character and his son was nice enough to show me pictures from his trip to the Huangshan area.
I still think we should have a Steepster convention!
Yes John Harney was singing I love Paris in the Springtime and a few other oldies…which was interesting and awesome at the same time! Michael Harney was good enough to share some of their super special tea with a few of us too. Wild times!
Yes, that was the song. I was trying to remember which song he was singing. I love the atmosphere and the people at the convention. Everyone is always in great spirits. It was interesting because the convention next to World Tea East had a completely different vibe.