Little Terri's Long Awaited Ultimate Sipdown Extravaganza!!!

I haven’t done any sip downs in the last few days, but I’m working on my monthly tea inventory, & somewhere along the line I finished of Elderwood, from WP, which brings me to 382.

Except I have more tea from Evil Sil, the samples from Tea Ave, & a few other teas to add in. I’ll update my numbers tomorrow…sigh…There’s always March!

Still trying to cull my numbers and it’s still a slow and frustrating process…
La Naissance – Fauchon – 179
Organic African Nectar – Mighty Leaf Tea – 178
Shui Hsien – Zen Tea – 177
Mountain Grape Oolong – Lupicia – 176

And here is the update! I’m ending February with 416 teas in my collection, which is a little more than my goal of 400, but thus is life. My goal for March will be to get down to 300 or less teas. The going is a little slower, but I’ll keep sipping & enjoying, because it’s not like I’m just gonna slam them down without savoring them :)

Sipdown !
99. Forever Nuts – David’s Tea
98. Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish – 52 Teas
97. Morrocan Mint – Camerons
96. White Mischief – Sarasota Local Coffee and Tea

I’ve been a little lax on posting my sip downs for the last several days, so here they are!
415. Rock – Mandala – not a true sip down, as I have more, but because it was listed twice on my list (once in my cupboard & also in a box from Sil) I’m counting it!
414. Earl Grey – Tazo – Tony enjoyed this cup
413. Golden Strand Black – Mandala – from Sil
412. Pear Oolong – Tea Leaves – Nicole
411. Royal Ruby Black – Sun Moon Lake Antique Assam Tea Farm
410. Organic Fukamushi Sencha – Dens? – Stephanie
409. Spring 2014 Yunnan Black Gold – Yunnan sourcing
408. Canal Street Carnival – Butiki – Sil
407. Shui Xian Lao Cong China Oolong – Camellia Sinensis – Sil
I feel like there are more, but if there are I’ve misplaced the packaging. Oh well…
That brings us to today:
406. Anxi Fo Shou – Verdant – Thank you JoonSusanna & Sil :)
405. Huangshan Maofeng “Yellow Mountain Tips” – Tribute Tea Company
404. 1994 Aged Oriental Beauty, Lot 234 – Taiwan Tea Crafts – Charlotte Zero
I’ve been sipping on this last one for awhile.
403. Midday Flight – Tippy’s Tea – from Sil/Cavo
So I have a new sip down scheme this month, which is to make sure to have at least one sip down of each of the following:
1. A black tea, either plain or flavored. Of course I can drink more than one!
2. A green tea or white tea, plain or flavored, because I have a bunch of samples from various people, & they need to be enjoyed! I can also substitute a no caffeine tea here, because I don’t really have that many.
3. An Oolong, either TGY, or something roasty, or whatever, because I have plenty of these, including some leftovers from when I was in Verdant’s tea clubs!

I’m currently leaving all my puerh samples out of the scheme because I have another plan for them, although I’m still working on that :)

Slowly but surely working my way through the pile!

99. English Breakfast – Stash
98. French Vanilla Chai – Twinings
97. Emerald Dew – Cornelia Bean

Today’s sip downs:
401. Fujian High Mntn Aged Arbor Bohea Wild chinese Black – Streetshop88 – Sil/Dexter
400. Autumn 2014 Fo shou Mei Feng Qing – Yunnan Sourcing – Sil
399. Anji Bai Cha White Jade Phoenix – Tribute Tea
398. Gui Hua Oolong – Tealux – Sil – TeaFairy

Just a few sip downs today. I slept in late, & have made a rule of no caffeine after 5:00 (really hard to stick to):
397. Georgia Natela’s Gold Standard – What-cha – Sil
396. Ye Sheng Hong Cha Wild Black Tea Spring 2012 – Norbu – Sil
395. China Imperial Yellow Tea – Upton Imports – Sil

I need to do some sipdowns. I’ve done like one.

A few more sipdowns yesterday and today:

96. Lady Grey – Twinings
95. Golden Monkey – Teavivre
94. Peach Jasmine Dragon Pearls – Teavivre