2966 Tasting Notes
So, I think this is a good blend. The base and the chocolate notes are actually really well blended, and I can tell that the general flavors are well balanced.
But I must say that I am not a big fan of either Pu-ehr or of chocolate teas, so this blend is never going to be a favorite.
But its doing very well as a work tea, where its getting sipped down quickly.
Backlogged from yesterday, where this was a sipdown.
I liked the idea of this more than the execution. I’m all about spicy teas, but the spices and the Lapsang base just never really blended well, and I never really loved this.
Its another sipdown! Hurrah for the cupboard clean out!
My boss, who is a very nice person, has been fighting a cold all week. Which is is now my turn to fight.
Damn it all, boss. Keep your germs on your side of the office.
Anyway, I have no idea if this tea helped, but I’ve successfully fended off the cold, and sipped down this tea in the process.
It tasted like wet hay, which is how I know its medicinal.
This is your boss with the air conditioning fetish, am I right?
Hope you feel better. Cold’s are somehow even more evil when you know they originated with someone else in your circle. Sick people, stay home!
Wait….. what do you mean I’ve reached my sipdown goal? Whhhhhhat?
Er, well, go me? To celebrate I shall have one of the teas that I have not yet tried.
So far so good! Its a nicely balanced breakfast bread, a good companion to toast, and generally pleasant.
I’m glad I feel that way, as I have an absolute ton of this.
Yay you! Well done.
My sip down approach is currently working on my focus pile—which is gargantuan—but also occasionally treating myself with a relatively new tea: shopping in my stash as it were to keep things interesting.
Thats a really good plan! I’m going to start planning a small, celebratory order of teas I’m interested in trying, as a reward.
I’ve been saying (and thinking to myself) that I liked this a lot, but it wasn’t destined to be a cupboard classic.
Well, the speed in which I sipped this down suggests something else, as is that I am thinking about composing my next Harney order, and how this will probably be in it.
But, for today, a sipdown.
You know, when you have a smaller cupboard but are still drinking vast quantities of tea then you occasionally have a moment, like today, where you go to take a teabag out and find its the very last one.
This is a nice chamomile, and its easy to come by, so I might get some more, sometime down the line.