Twinings

A light flavored Earl Grey with more citrus than the regular Earl Grey. I also got a touch of smoke with this batch. Smooth, High Quality tea. I got this batch in tea bags, although it is availble in loose leaf. I don’t detect a difference in quality between the bags and the loose leaf, although I have a preference for loose leaf..

[edit]: smoke wasn’t from the tea as it turns out. There is no smoke component to LEG.

A little weak, even after steeping for quite some time. Bergamot flavor is less noticeable than in other Earl Greys.

This isn’t what I wanted to drink, but I only have one left of my preferred tea, so I figured I’d give it a go. I steeped a much shorter time and threw in a bit of raw sugar to try to enhance the apple and minimize the chamomile (which now that I’ve tasted I know I don’t like). Learning experiences!! Anyway, the titch of sugar took the edge off the chamomile. I should bring in my honey from home as I prefer it to sugar, but ah well. Still a lovely tea.

Enjoyed it so much this morning I thought I would have it again. The liquor is more pale than I expect, and the green apple taste is delicious. I don’t actually know what chamomile tastes like, but I assume it to be subtle since I don’t find there to be an over-powering flavour.

As it cooled I started to notice something more and more that I referred to as laundry soap – Presumably that was the chamomile. Didn’t like that so much. Downgraded rating : (

Breakfast tea!

The most authentically apple thing I’ve had in the last few weeks. I quite enjoyed it, though one bag to two cups wasn’t my best idea. Ah well, it conserves the tea.

Smells and tastes a bit like green apples – sort of on the candy side, but quite nice. After the terrible Celestial Seasonings Apple Cinnamon episode, I am pleased to find an apple I like.

Found some of this in the “far back” of my tea cupboard while digging out some favourites over the weekend. I brought the few remaining bags with me to work to use while at reception/switchboard. Had a sore throat this morning so I went for this one rather than a bagged black and was glad I did. I still quite like this one for a bagged tea, the flavour comes through as sweet mandarin, but not cloyingly so. I’ve had trouble finding nice orange teas, so this one is a treat. : )

It’s been a while, old friend. Sweet mandarin, nice flavours. Popped it in the travel mug this morning (lazy, I know!) since I over-slept and had no time for tea earlier. Lovely.

So yummy. I’m sure I’ve said this before. No new spiel – tasty! Sweet! Citrus sweet!

Love this little guy. Sweet honeybush, sweet tangeriney flavour. Nothing tart about this. Like an overripe citrus taste. I imagine it would steep quite nicely if mixed with some lemon!

So yummy. Was a lovely start to the work day!

I feel like a McDonalds commercial – I’m loving it! (Still…)

Still loving it. Doesn’t taste as orangey as it smells, but smell is such a large factor in taste that it all balances out. Hits my sweet citrus needs, and would make an interesting combo with any number of my favourite lemon teas.

Smells AMAZING. The taste is not nearly as strong as the smell, but I did pour two cups out of one bag, so a one bag to one cup ratio will likely increase the orange scent. The falvour alone makes me happy – was a treat of a tea.

Perfect for a cold winter evening… would be better if there were snow on the ground :)

This tea is Terrible Bitter and has hardly any flavor Lipton even taste better…

Okay, it finally happened. I finally, after more than a year of loose leaf love, have fallen out of love with my bagged Twinings Black Currant. It makes me sad, but also excited becuase now I can officially begin the hunt for an amazing loose black currant. Unfortunately, I rarely see ‘plain’ black currant black teas. What’s up with that? : )

Helly, My Precious.

Oh, I do so love you. Juicy, flavourful, soothing. I should probably break out of my tea routines, but I just don’t want to. It’s so good to be in a rut, sometimes!

Spent the second half of my lunch-hour enjoying a mug of this and the newest Dan Brown novel. I know, I’m behind the times in my “literature” but I really enjoy him and my mother gave me this for Christmas. The tea was delicious (juicy, solid black currant flavour, as always) and a lovely pairing to my book and day. A nice upper on this grey sleepy day.

I’m now enjoying a second mug of this delicious treat – I find I can always get two solid cups out of one teabag, and sometimes three. I’m running low on my stock at work, I might have to bring some in from home soon..

Pot of this already today, while playing cards. This delicious teabag is actually strong enough to fill a 2 or 3 cup pot with really quite good flavour. Love!

Oh my. Somehow I’ve forgotten how delicious you are, both hot and cold. Luckily, this morning, I was reminded. Juicy and fragrant. Black Currant awesome. This is the only tea I’ve managed to have yet today, but oh what a tea it was.

Mmmm.

This is the only other kind of black tea I had at work, and I love it – A lovely way to end the work day!