2967 Tasting Notes
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!
Oh, it’s been a crazy few weeks. I’ve been in a one night only play, I’ve held down my office during the busiest season of the year, my boss has taken a week long vacation immedietly after, and now, his MIL has covid, so what this week will look like yet.
Ooof. Tea to the rescue?
I hope she’s ok, and my boss is ok, and his small child is ok.
Eeeesh.
Every Lupicia Christmas or New Years tea always has a flavor profile that I think is better for the warmer weather, so I am drinking their New Years Eve tea on Easter.
Nom.
Yesterday it was pouring rain, but today it is bright and clear.
My mom will be coming over for dinner tonight, so I have tidying to do!
Ah, this weekend has not been long enough.
I have started my day with the Queen, to be a balm to an overly busy soul.
At work we have a week before a major deadline, and I’m starting tech week for a play I’m in. I’m also editing the script a playwright I’ve worked with before has asked feedback on.
How have I convinced people that I am a responsable adult, and why does that make me so busy? Arrgh.
But the queen is her perfectly balanced, magical and majestic self, and that lets me relax for at least the duration of a cuppa tea.
