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This is still one of my very favorite breakfast teas. And afternoon teas. And just any danged time teas. This is smooth and rich without being frilly. I made this for me and a friend today, and when he asked where he could buy it I directed him to the whispering pines website. He just about dropped his teeth. “It costs how much?” he yelped. You’d have thought someone stabbed him. Sheesh.

This one isn’t even available at the moment. I suppose $8.50 an ounce is a bit spendy, but it is a lovely tea, and it re-steeps well. For a really good tea I’d pay even more. I’ll have to keep track of when it comes back in stock. I am planning a tea order in October. Not that I actually need more tea…

I haven’t had this one lately. I’ve been hoarding it since it’s not available anymore.
The flavor is fine. But the real reason I love this tea is the memories attached to it. I tried this one for the first time about 7 or maybe 8 years ago while I was visiting friends in Winnipeg. (Have you noticed how often my tea love is connected to memories, and particularly with Canada?) We had left our hosts, Dave and Robyn, and were strolling through Polo Park before heading back to the States. That was the first time I had been IN a David’s Tea shop. It was lovely to see all the teas, and the teaware, in person. I had a sample of this to drink, and ordered 25 grams to take home with me. Along with several other teas cough

Everytime I drink it I remember that day with Chris and Tiff. Good memories. And good tea. I still have about 25 grams in the drawer. I wonder how long it will last?

It is a lovely day for tea drinking! After a few weeks of above average temperatures, it is cool today, and will be a bit below average or at average for the next week. Color me happy. 72 degrees is about perfect, especially when it gets down to 55 at night. See? Perfect tea drinking weather. I don’t want to hurry winter along, but those days in the upper 80s and mid 90s make me crabby. I would like a long autumn please.

I have far too much tea to even THINK of placing an order. Tonight I’ve made a pot of this tea. I really enjoy it, but I’m anxious to drink it up so I have room for other teas. Does anyone else get like that? A favorite tea retailer brings out new teas every month or so and I say, “Ooh, that one looks good!” But the tea cabinet is already overflowing, so you force yourself to not order. And when that tea is no longer available, you kick yourself for not ordering. GAHH!

What a delicious tea. I like a dessert-y tea after supper when I’m sitting and knitting. Even with a diminished sense of smell, the orange came through. It reminds me of those chocolate oranges you buy around Christmas time. I didn’t get the rum this time. Oh, well, I have plenty left so maybe the next cup.

I went digging through the tea drawer tonight for something caffeine free and came up with this one. Huh, I thought it was gone. Lucky me, I had enough left for another cup.

This is good. I prefer honeybush to rooibos. Honeybush is naturally sweet and sometimes rooibos can be a bit woody. The mixture here is great. I am a sucker for a nice dessert-y tea and one that is caffeine free before bed isn’t as common in my tea drawer. This one, however, fits the bill perfectly. Naturally sweet, mild, and creamy, it goes great with the butter cookies I’ve been saving for a treat. I’m sad that it is gone. I’ll need to add something like this to my fall tea shopping list.

A friend went on a cruise to Alaska,and she bought me a sampler of herbal teas from this company. I have cranberry, raspberry, wild rose and this blueberry tea. I decided to make the blueberry first.

I wasn’t really expecting much. A lot of these “touristy” teas are pretty generic. Nothing to really write home about. This one is a step above that. When I first poured the water over the bag the water turned grey. I was a bit repulsed. But then I realized that was the blueberries. And the color quickly turned brown as it steeped. Even with my sense of smell severely subdued, I could smell the blueberries. The flavor was mild. I have three more bags of this one and I think I’ll try it iced next. The weather is quite warm here this week, so iced tea is the way to go now. :)

The first time I had this tea I was immediately taken back to a bonfire sing along on like Winnipeg where someone had brought along some homemade peach brandy. I had a friend stay over on Sunday night who was at the bonfire singalong and I made this tea for us to enjoy. She took a deep sniff and said, “This reminds me of last year at Gimli. Remember? Armond brought his brandy to the bardic circle.” I laughed because we had the same reaction!

I still really enjoy this tea. She did too.

I got this as a sample with my last 52Teas order. I put it off because I saw that bergamot was one of ingredients. I am not fond of bergamot. Earl Gray is not a fave! But either my cup didn’t have much bergamot or it is so light I can barely taste it. I enjoyed this cup. It had a mellow strawberry flavor that avoided the fake or “children’s cough syrup” version of strawberry, and it didn’t taste like sickeningly sweet strawberry candy either.

It was cold today! Only 55 and very windy. Tonight it is supposed to get down to 37. Do you know what that means? Yep, hot tea drinking weather!

After the mid and upper 80s of the weekend (and that is way too hot for me, even in July, much less May!) I was afraid we’d have no more chilly weather until October. But the rest of this week will be in the 60s and lower 70s. I like those temps much better. Yes, I’m weird.

All that was a build up to me going through my tea stash to find something dessert-y for this evening. I wanted something small, probably too small to make a pitcher of iced tea. And I found this little sample that I received with my last order from Quarter 2 Tea. Green tea is not my fave. In fact, I actively dislike it. But the pecan shortbread part snagged me. It was only a little bit, enough for one cup. I figured I should use it up.

I was pleasantly surprised. The grass flavor that I dislike was there, but it didn’t remind me of a pile of grass clipping rotting in the sun. There was a definite butter cookie flavor. I drank the first cup and re-steeped. That time the grass flavor overwhelmed the pleasant shortbread flavor. The first cup, though was very nice. I wouldn’t want to order any more of this, but it was good.