My coworker became a tea person over the break :) and brought me in some of this to try. OH MAN THIS IS GOOD! Spicy but gentle and very, very, very flavorful. I taste a million spices, and some fruitiness, too! A great natural sweetness with nary an addition. This is my first experience with mate, and I like it!
I still do not want to go into the Teavana store and get accosted, but this might put me over the edge and order online.
I love to cook, bake, read, paint, knit, do needlework, and garden. I need my coffee, but I LOVE my tea. I work at an Art School, and attend a large public university doing post-bac work (my BA is in English). I’m interested in the liminal spaces between art and craft, the academic and the practical, the individual and community, and the old and the new. I’m currently exploring these ideas through the disciplines of education, literature, history, and psychology.
I enjoy writing tasting notes, but have decided not to numerically rate teas as of 9/14/10. For an explanation, see my looooong tasting note about Mountain Malt from the Simple Leaf.
My favorites:
Chinese black teas
A good “milk and sugar” English style black
Earl Grey (classic, and in all variations!)
Vanilla teas (classic, and in all variations!)
Jasmine, Rose, Violet and other froofy, flowery teas!
An Occasional Oolong
Flavored Rooibos
Herbal Tisanes
Collingswood, NJ
