1403 Tasting Notes
Especially delicious with all the coconut clustered at the bottom though truly it was delicious throughout. I persist in wanting to call this Coconut Caribana. Honest sweet coconut delicious
regardless. Perfect for a winter day of leaping over slush rivers at the curbs leftover from the frozen snow/sleet/rain earlier in the day.
I had another travel mug of this that had gone cold overnight, but wow, super nice as a cold tea too. There was a bit of oily film on the surface, but nevermind.
Would welcome this into my cupboard again. A very tasty blend indeed.
And it’s a sip down!
Sipdown 69
(9 of 2019)
About this kid next door. I sit at my table about to work on something due tomorrow. Fuss, fuss, fuss. Cranky, cranky, cranky. I go to pick up some soup to nourish and sustain me, hoping the kid’s mood will pass. I eat. I set out to work on the thing again. Fuss, fuss, fuss. Cranky, cranky, cranky. I decide to lie down for a wee nap because now my energy is draining away. Five minutes lying down and the kid is shrieking, shrieking, shrieking through the wall beside me.
And so goes the day.
This tea has made life nicer. Chocolate and walnut truffle nicer.
A delightful tea all round beginning with the appearance of the tightly wound pellet rocks of leaf. The pellets eventually unfurl into fat large leaves happily dancing in my clear glass steeper.
The first few steeps are honey sweet and floral and ever so slightly sour. Then, the flavours become more and more vegetal, but never completely losing their sweetness.
The leaves were still going strong on the sixth steep. They had more to give, but I was out of hot water and out of time.
Thank you, Angel, for the sample. I very much enjoyed this session.
Happy Chinese New Year to you and yours!And it’s a sipdown!
Sipdown 68
(8 of 2019)
Here we go. Delightfulness on a cold, but not all THAT cold, winter day.
The candied pecan and sandalwood play nicely against that SunMoon base. We could do with more of this blend in the world.