drank Highland Mist by Queen Bee Farms
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I popped over to Vancouver Island a week back to attend the Victoria Tea Festival, and while getting off the bus, I noticed a chocolate shop. I decided to pop in, because I still had about ten minutes before the doors opened, and… ended up pre-gaming the festival by buying this tea (plus some rosemary dark chocolate, which was really nice).

I brought the little travel-tin, and I find myself continuously reaching for it. This is a sweet, subtle earl grey cream, and it has a different kind of vanilla note that I don’t often encounter, but is very nostalgic of… Something. I don’t quite know what. The closest is that it’s orange creamsicle-like tea from DavidsTea?

The base is light, not too bitter, perhaps a little flavourless, but the vanilla/cream lingers pleasantly, and the “bergamot orange” listed on the ingredients is definitely “orange”, and not so much “bergamot”, weirdly.

I was at back-to-back festivals, and forgot to review some of the teas I sipped throughout them, so we’ll see if I ever catch up on that backlog. Enjoying this pre-festival tea.

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Disclaimer: I work for Murchie’s Tea and Coffee as a taster and blender. I will avoid putting any ratings on teas from them from here on out.

A tea-drinking transgendered Canadian, university graduate, majored in geology (yes, “rocks and things”). I take most of my tea made straight into a mug, although occasionally if I’m not in a hurry (this isn’t often), I’ll have time to sit down with a pot or gaiwan. It’s the highlight of a good day.

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