We had a trip to the big city of Raleigh today (they are filming Iron Man 3 there right now by the way!) to help oldest daughter look at apartments. Yes, another child of mine is moving to Tea Land! LOL!

I bought some new cheeses to try at Whole Foods there and wanted a nice tea to go with them. The cheese I purchased was the 1833 Aged Cheddar and an Emmentaler. I wanted a black to accompany them and couldn’t decide what to have until I remembered that I still have a good amount of this sample left. I started to make a big pot, and then decided I needed to treat myself to a real tea event and make this in my tiny glass teapot. I am so glad I did!

I took the teapot to let hubby watch the pearls unfurl with me. My perfect teaspoon had scooped out four pearls, my glass teapot is eight ounces, so I didn’t fill it all the way. The pearls would release little bubbles of air, then one or two slightly larger ones as they began to unfurl. The water slowly turned a medium amber color. Already the aroma is…complicated. This is hard to describe for me. The tea has a dominant cocoa note, but then I think, no, it has a dominant honey note. This is sweet, and at the same time reminds me of unsweetened cocoa. This is a tea with a lot of personality. You may WANT to just drink tea, but if this is the tea, it will arrest your attention. Yet it is not a strong tea, but a gentle one.

I think I will be clicking “In My Cupboard” soon. I have steeped these four little pearls three times now and will do one or two more tonight. This is another winner from Teavivre, and will be making appearances at tea party regularly in the future.

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I am a music teacher, tutor, and former homeschool mom (25 years!) who started drinking loose leaf tea about fourteen years ago! My daughters and I have tea every day, and we are frequently joined by my students or friends for “tea time.” Now my hubby joins us, too. His tastes have evolved from Tetley with milk and sugar to mostly unadorned greens and oolongs.

We have learned so much history, geography, and culture in this journey.

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