I’m getting through these Nina’s samples, and they’ve all been pretty good. Some great.
This is a smoky gunpowder with mint.
Baladé is the french word for walk, but it’s also the name of a Lebonese restaurant in New York City. That’s very fitting, because to drink tea with mint is a very Arabic thing to do. More precisely, drinking tea with mint and rose water is a very very Arabic thing to do. That’s how I’m enjoying this tea right now. Insha’Allah
I’m a professional musician. I tour the country and shake my ass to pay for my tea habit.
I tried a cup of some very good Tieguanyin in 2009. That was it. Tea became my thing.
I love pure teas. I love oolongs with natural orchid aroma, winey keemuns, and most things jasmine. I dislike things that taste artificial.
My tea rating system is mostly arbitrary.
There’s a tea for every occasion and I hate having occasions missing from my tea stash.
Atlanta, GA
how much rose water do you use?
Not much. The kind I have is strong. I use like a cap full per cup of tea.