Thanks to the awesome JoeCool (Nichole) for sending me some of this tribute to Jane Austen. I am in LOVE with this blend! I’m a nut for anything Jane Austen (well, maybe not the movie adaptations of some of her works), plus I go crazy for blackberry so this blend will always have a place in my heart – and in my cupboard!
I brewed this up longer than I should have the first time around, so I ended up with more blackberry than vanilla. (What a shame.) 2nd infusion/cup I carefully brewed for about four minutes and now the flavor is the perfect balance…although I still taste slightly more blackberry. Whatevs. It’s delish regardless. A must for blackberry fans. An essential for Jane Austen tea drinkers. This one rocks!
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P.S. This is my 100th tasting note! YAY! :)
Yay!! This blend sounds so yummy. If I ever venture into Adagio territory I will have to give it a go. : )
I’m addicted to blackberries. No, seriously. Mom brought home a pint yesterday for me and I literally did the whole “little kid at Christmas” routine lol. Eating blackberries sets my maturity level back about 20 years lol. Sadly, I’m not sure I’d like this- I’ve had the blackberry straight up and didn’t get much blackberry flavor… I’ve also had a blend w/ only 10% cream and it really consumed the blend. The idea alone makes me giddy though!:)
Its soo good. I def enjoyed this one and I too am a blackberry addict :)
Having had to pick my own (under duress) as a young’un, I am just now getting over a berry-phobia induced by dozens of chigger bites and the worst wasp sting I ever had. This, however, sounds very good!
Some of Austen’s movie adaptations have been highly questionable, yes! As a BA-carrying member of the film studies set and a Jane Austen mafioso (mafiosa?), I can attest to filmic adaptations of Austen novels being quite an undertaking when transitioning to a visual format — Austen did not use half as much dialogue as that which occurs in most films today. People had more time to read back then, after all, as well as more time to think, drink tea, and not be besieged by fast-paced cuts between conversations and scenes in every single modern-day Hollywood film. ;)
Austen too! I’m enjoying your tealog more and more.
P.S. This is my 100th tasting note! YAY! :)
Yay!! This blend sounds so yummy. If I ever venture into Adagio territory I will have to give it a go. : )
I’m addicted to blackberries. No, seriously. Mom brought home a pint yesterday for me and I literally did the whole “little kid at Christmas” routine lol. Eating blackberries sets my maturity level back about 20 years lol. Sadly, I’m not sure I’d like this- I’ve had the blackberry straight up and didn’t get much blackberry flavor… I’ve also had a blend w/ only 10% cream and it really consumed the blend. The idea alone makes me giddy though!:)
Its soo good. I def enjoyed this one and I too am a blackberry addict :)
Having had to pick my own (under duress) as a young’un, I am just now getting over a berry-phobia induced by dozens of chigger bites and the worst wasp sting I ever had. This, however, sounds very good!
Some of Austen’s movie adaptations have been highly questionable, yes! As a BA-carrying member of the film studies set and a Jane Austen mafioso (mafiosa?), I can attest to filmic adaptations of Austen novels being quite an undertaking when transitioning to a visual format — Austen did not use half as much dialogue as that which occurs in most films today. People had more time to read back then, after all, as well as more time to think, drink tea, and not be besieged by fast-paced cuts between conversations and scenes in every single modern-day Hollywood film. ;)
Austen too! I’m enjoying your tealog more and more.