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I’m really having a disappointing tea night, nothing I’ve made is quite what I’m looking for and some are just flat out terrible. This tea falls in the not what I’m looking for category, but it didn’t leave me disappointed like the chocolate almond coconut did.

The scent of the dry leaf is strong and has a heavy artificial raspberry scent, but surprisingly the brewed tea has very little raspberry flavor. Mostly I can taste the black base with a hint of chocolate flavoring. Normally I don’t sweeten my tea, but I did add a little rock sugar to try and draw the raspberry flavor out a little. It didn’t really help.

I think I’ll take the last of this and try to make a latte out of it.

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Dexter

Sorry you are having a bad tea day. :(( Ithink you deserve a cup of one of your favorites.

Short Sorceress

I agree, that’s why I’ve made a cup of my favorite herbal and decided to head off to bed early. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better tea day :)

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Dexter

Sorry you are having a bad tea day. :(( Ithink you deserve a cup of one of your favorites.

Short Sorceress

I agree, that’s why I’ve made a cup of my favorite herbal and decided to head off to bed early. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better tea day :)

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I am always interested in swapping so if you see anything in my cupboard that you want to try just send me a message. Please keep in mind that I order most of my teas in sample sizes and may not have a lot to swap. I’m also trying to keep my swaps limited to one a month so I don’t break the bank.

My favorite tea companies to order from are American Tea Room, Rishi, TeaVivre, and Single Origin Teas, however I am constantly lured away from my favorites by a good sale.

Ingredients I love in tea
rose, peach, oolong, osmanthus, vanilla, marshmallow root and peppermint

Ingredients I dislike in tea:
spearmint, chocolate, orange, hibiscus, sage and for the most part lemon.

I am a firm believer that sage only belongs in my thanksgiving stuffing/dressing and absolutely not in my tea.

Allergies
Cinnamon, Chocolate, Burdock Root, and Goji Berries

Teawares:
FORLIFE Curve Teapot, 24oz
Adagio ingenuiTEA, 16oz
Adagio Iced ingenuiTEA, 32oz
Zojirushi Water Pot, 4L
Libbey Country Fair drinking jars for ice tea
TeaVivre Travel Gaiwan

Rating Guidelines:

100 – 90: Pantry essential and some of my all time favorites that I can’t live without.

89 – 80: You’ll have a pretty good chance of finding this is my pantry on a regular basis, but it isn’t the end of the world if I run out.

79 – 70: I might consider restocking this at some point if the price was right.

69 – 40: Not undrinkable, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy it again.

39 – 20: What in the world were they thinking? Probably still finished this just because I hate to waste anything.

19 – 0: Wow, that’s so terrible chances are pretty good I dumped it out and gave away the rest.

My current top five favorite teas:

China Black – Rishi Tea
Earl Grey Cream – Zen Tea
Lemoncello – American Tea Room
Nonpareil Anxi Qing Xiang TieGuanYin Oolong – TeaVivre
White Tea Rose Mélange – Rishi Tea

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Oregon, WI

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http://www.notstarvingyet.com/

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