A wee sale & Whispering Pines Updates: Green Tea, Smoky Black Blend, and restocks!

Just released a new chai blend! ;-)

http://whisperingpinestea.com/evergreen-spice.html

Evergreen Spice was inspired by the pristine evergreen forests and deciduous woodlands of the upper peninsula of Michigan! I started with a sweet Anxi Ben Shan oolong blended with my chai spice base, then I slow-roasted wildcrafted cedar leaves and finally finished it off with a touch of spearmint and tulsi.

Evergreen Spice opens up with smooth, sweet evergreen notes and warming chai spices. Caramelized cedar wisps through mid-sip and the finish feels like a cool breeze on the tongue, fading out into comforting warmth. A pure and inspired blend, Evergreen Spice is a favorite of mine to sip inside on cold winter mornings. This is a perfect embodiment of winter in northern Michigan and will please any tea lover!

ALSO

Rivendell is back in stock! :-)

You probably can’t speak about it… but is it possible that the elves will be done with that sheng within the next year?

New Releases!

http://whisperingpinestea.com/wild-grey.html – Wild Grey is a very lightly flavored earl grey using our Wildcrafted Dian Hong and pure cold-pressed oil of bergamot, aged for 30 days. A warm, sweet citrus note mingles with malt and cocoa, sweet potato, and light spice. This blend is smooth, honey-sweet, and comforting. Wild Grey holds up to milk if steeped longer (5 minutes), but I prefer to drink it straight, steeping at 3 minutes for the first infusion, or brewing gongfu style!

http://whisperingpinestea.com/2014-huron-te-ji.html – The 2014 Huron Te Ji Shou Pu-erh was harvested in Spring 2014 and fermented shortly afterwards. It is “te ji” grade, a smaller leaf size that brews up quite strong. As with our other offerings, 2014 Huron Te Ji is a lighter fermentation, which will allow it to benefit from long term aging. Despite its young age, this tea is quite ready for drinking now, brewing up with sweet, warm petrichor and pinewood notes, along with a chocolaty finish and light hints of merlot. One of the beautiful things about this tea is the purity of it, which can be noted in the taste as well as the pure, heartwarming cha qi.

I swear Rivendell wasn’t in stock when I made my order this weekend.

So I was forced to break my no buy twice in a row.

The first was a legit need for more Claritea which I’m glad I made because it seems likely I still be sick when it gets here Thursday. I need to keep track of my stock and not let it get too low. Evergreen Spice looks tasty.

Of course I needed free shipping so a few other things hopped along. Today’s order was pure hedonism though.

New Releases (newish, oops…haha)

Mi Lan Xiang Dancong Oolong – http://whisperingpinestea.com/mi-lan-xiang.html
Mi Lan Xiang is a famous varietal of Dancong oolong grown on Phoenix Mountain in Guangzhou, China. Phoenix mountain is a high elevation (1000m+ above sea level) mountain that spends most of the year covered in mist. Tea trees thrive in these conditions, producing some of the most complex and beautiful tea available! Mi Lan Xiang translates to Honey Orchid Fragrance, and carries, as the name implies, a warm honey and orchid flavor profile. Our Mi Lan Xiang is lightly charcoal roasted to bring out these notes. The flavor is smooth and sweet with thick honey and orchid, a light mineral aftertaste and lingering fruit and floral qualities.

2015 Moonlight Sonata – http://whisperingpinestea.com/2015-moonlight-sonata.html
Flavor wise, the best way to describe Moonlight Sonata is smooth, sweet, spiced honey drizzled into fresh white grape juice and infused with springtime wildflowers and a touch of tangerine. These 100g cakes consist of moonlight white tea and snow chrysanthemum flowers, both from spring 2015. They are ageable and will develop deeper, more malty base notes over the next decade, eventually tasting like a mix between an oolong and black!

“What’s New?” page: http://whisperingpinestea.com/new.html

Cheers! :-)

Lots of new stuff here :-)

Spring Jade Tieguanyin just arrived: http://whisperingpinestea.com/spring-jade-tgy.html

A licorice tea for all the black licorice lovers! http://whisperingpinestea.com/cheshire-black.html

Earl Gold is also back, and really awesome this season: http://whisperingpinestea.com/earl-gold.html

Hope everyone is doing well, and let me know if there’s any questions!

Happy sipping,
Brenden

Hi Brenden, I sent you a message via the message box on your website, but haven’t heard from you yet.

Happy Birthday!!!

I’m putting this here because I am not sure where else to put it. As some of you may have noticed, I always ask for suggestions for pairing my teas with my book clubs book of the month. This month we were reading Station Eleven which has elements of camping/traveling on the road in a post-apocalyptic Michigan.

So, before placing my next order, I asked Brenden if he had any suggestions based on some descriptions of the book. He suggested a not yet released tea of his called Black Bear. It has lapsang souchong to give it some smoke (to represent the campfires) and a sweet, mild berry under note to represent foraging. I tried it when I first got it last week and it was lovely.

Last night, I had my book club meeting out by my fire pit. I have an electrical source in my pavilion so I was able to brew tea outside. The Black Bear was VERY popular. Everyone commented on how good/interesting it was. Success.

So, Brenden. Thank you so much for your suggestion and I can’t wait to see the reactions when you release this tea. It is a really nice offering. Thanks again.

Back in stock:

Golden Orchid
Cocoa Amore
Ambrosia (now Spring 2016)
Ancient Spirit
White Gold
Laoshan Green
Silver Needle
Yunnan Gold Tips

Hope all is well, and as always, feel free to ask questions here! :-)

P.S. – Cocoa Amore is amazing this year :)