762 Tasting Notes
The snow is finally melting for the blizzard we had last Wednesday and Thursday. Man, I am tired of winter! The only good thing is a little more cold weather for hot tea drinking before I switch over to iced tea.
I dearly love this tea. So smooth, so creamy, so good. I bet it would be great iced, but this one is just too good for that. I mean, iced tea takes more leaf and I don’t want to give any of this one up. So I think I will re-steep and have another cup before bed.
What a bad day. The weather was beautiful. Sunny and upper 20s. Church was good. But I inadvertently started a row online with some friends. I emailed them individually to apologize but no one is replying. I hate leaving things hanging like that. I want closure if not forgiveness. But I can’t force anyone. So I opened my last package of girl scout cookies and brewed half a pot of this tea. Yummy. It’s the best comfort available to me right now.
Perhaps they are offline or perhaps they just need a bit of time and sanity to mull things over. Give space. Hopefully, they will come around. Oh, and be kind to yourself.
Sorry for the friendship frustration! Hope all is well—once the thaw comes, will you be prone to flooding? If so, will be praying for you to stay high and dry!
My friends and I have been able to discuss and all is well again. :)
The mayor of Fargo has signed a state of emergency. We will definitely have a flood. How bad we don’t know yet. MY dept at work as signed up to man the spider Monday morning from 10-noon. That is, make sandbags.
I’ve seen the pics of other places like Nebraska and my heart goes out to them.
We’ve done the disaster thing personally (tornado rather than flood). It’s hard physically and emotionally. Praying. Keep us posted.
This tea was a favorite years ago. 30 years ago I was served this when I was staying with a friend in Minneapolis. At that point in my life I wasn’t much of a tea drinker. Probably because to me, tea was Lipton. I’m sure there are plenty of people who enjoy LIpton, but to me it is bitter and astringent. So this herbal tea came as a pleasant surprise.
Yesterday I did my grocery shopping and I saw this tea was on sale for $2.19 a box. I completely ignored my vow to buy no more tea and put a box in my cart. Last night I brewed a cup. Ah. Just as cinnamon-red-hot-candy as I remembered. I just really like this tea.
Flavors: Cinnamon
I wanted a rich smooth tea this afternoon, so I decided on this one. It was the sample I received with my last WP order. I wanted rich and smooth and that is what I got. My sinuses are a little more open today so I was able to taste the complex subtleties in this tea. This is a superior tea.
We’re expected 8-10 inches moire of snow tomorrow and Sunday. I am going no where and doing nothing but sit, read, knit, and drink tea.
It’s back to being cold. Well, I guess it never stopped. But the weather called for the type of tea that warms you up. So I went looking for a chai. Found this one. It was good. It’s a decent tea, but it lacks a ‘wow’ factor. It was a Christmas gift, so I better drink it up. As I said, nothing wrong with it.
I’m digging way back in the cupboard for tea lately. This was one of my first ‘real’ teas. I still remember having a sample at David’s Tea at Polo Park in Winnipeg. I bought a lot of tea that day, including this one. Although this tin is not the one I bought that day. This is a 100 gram tin I bought a while back when I heard Cranberry Pear was being discontinued. I wish they would bring this one back. Or maybe not. They could re-blend it and add stevia. :( :( :(
I brewed up a pot last night to have something warm and comforting to drink after a horrible day at work. Today was slightly better. Very slightly. So I think I’m going to take a hot bubble bath, then slather on on powder and lotion, brew a pot of something I haven’t had recently, and read a book.I spent about 30 minutes digging the car out this morning. Not because I’m planning to go anywhere. And really, what is the point, since we’re expecting another blizzard tomorrow. This will be a ground blizzard, which is what you get when the wind is 50 mph and there is loose snow on the ground. Thanks to the snow fall Friday, we have lots of light fluffy snow to blow around. I’m wintered out. After the ground blizzard on Sunday the high on Monday and Tuesday will be below zero. Really, I’m all done with winter.
One nice thing is coming in, taking off all my cold weather gear and brewing a cup of a tea that I know won’t disappoint. Cheers.
A long day of overtime at the day job followed by some writing. I ate too much for supper (seems to be an ongoing problem for me) so I wanted something with mint for my tummy. But I was really tired, so I thought something with caffeine would be good. I dug through my tea drawer and found this one. Wow. I never drink this. It’s a shame. I like this one. I still have about 50 grams of this left of the 100 gram tin. I have GOT to start drinking up my tea hoard!!
I had this one this afternoon on my break. I’ve decided I have HAVE to stop eating whatever and whenever I want. My blood glucose isn’t awful, but it was 132 this morning, about 15-20 higher than normal. So that means I get to drink more tea!
This one is okay. Nothing to really write home about. Not bad. It’s not sour or astringent or bitter. It’s not great. Neither the chocolate nor strawberry comes out, and the smoke is very light. I think I’ll have a favorite later tonight to make up for it.
