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Hello everyone! Oof, June was a wash in terms of me writing tasting notes. It was a busy month. (The anniversary of the death of my father, both of my far-flung siblings being in town, preparing for my boss to go on paternity leave, auditions and early rehersal for a play, and coming off a week where the low temp was 103 all week).
I shall try to be here more. I do love it so.
So I ordered this tea from Curiosa society, which is a shop full of “extraordinary goods”. I’ve ordered cool cards and gifts from them before, and when I saw they were selling teas, well, I jumped.
This is a strawberries and cream type blend, which always sound so lovely, but this came out a touch bitter to me. What is the steeping secret for this sort of blend? Further experimentation is needed.
On a heat related note- what is everyones preferred method for making iced tea? I have decided this is the year I really get the hang of it, but advice would be appriciated!

A sipdown!
I liked this, and will certainly bring it back.
It was the perfect tea for the last couple of days, as we’ve launched ourselves into our over-100-degree weather.
Ick.

Sigh. Its gonna be that kind of day. The day where, as you are preparing your morning tea, you knock over the bag and leaf goes all over your kitchen floor.
Grumble. Not all of this was lost, but I do now have a rather high relief spiders web under my kitchen counters.

This is one of those Lupicia fruit teas, where the taste is more “generically fruity”, rather than specifics. A sense of summer fruits, but I couldent pick out anything in particular in this cup.
I find I need to watch these cups carefully, as if I am not careful they can oversteep and become bitter.

The one tea I brought back from New York was this, from the Morgan Library.
It’s not very descriptive on the packaging (“black tea”), but it smells like a Lapsang.
It brews up as a milder lapsang than some I have had, which is not a complaint. This is a gently smoky tea, not dramatic, and easy enough to drink.
I’m looking forward to sipping more of this going forward.

(Steepster ate this not the first time, so apologies if I’ve somehow posted this twice….)

Early in my tea journey I didn’t like Breakfast Blends, but I am warming to them now.
This is fairly nice. Strong, but not so strong that it affects the taste. Its just the sort of gentle hand I like to ease me into a morning.
I rarely have tea with milk or sugar in it, but i think it would taste really nice with this tea. Maybe I’ll have to try it.

Oh friends, I recently blundered, and blundered badly. I went on a week long trip with no tea!
I went to NYC to visit my brother, and I assumed my hotel would have at least something. Well, it did, depressing grey packets just labeled “tea”, and with the schedule I didn’t even have time to visit any tea shops in NYC (that will be remedied next time I go!).
I hereby make a solemn vow- I will never travel without an emergency reserve of tea again.
I am so happy to be reunited with my tea stash.

Last week it was almost summer weather, but we’ve had a cold snap in the last few days, and I could not be happier.
I’ve pulled out this to sip down, as it feels more like a “cold weather” tea to me, so it feels right.
Ah, to be snuggled with a cup of tea. My happiest of happy places.

It’s been beautiful where I live, the perfect weather. Its been clear, the weather has been warm but not hot, and cool enough to be comfortable in a light sweater.
These weeks are brief in my neck of the woods, so I am taking advantage.
Time for a cup of springy tea, to celebrate the weather!