I don’t have time for a long review here, where I wax poetic about the glories of this tea.
Let’s just jump to the chase & say that everything you’ve heard about this tea is spot on. The initial aroma reminds me of a really high quality vanilla pipe tobacco (although I don’t know for sure if I’ve ever actually smelled one), & then you start drinking it, & it’s awesomely wonderful, vanilla ice cream with dark chocolate sauce drizzled over the top, the kind that hardens into a shell. What I love about it most is that the black tea underneath isn’t some woosie generic, it’s bold & thick chinese blacks. And yeah, it resteeps like a dream, & I’m taking all those resteeps for once. And the sweet aftertaste lingers…sigh…
I’ve said enough!
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Yay!! That’s EXACTLY what it is!!!
Welcome to the GO Cult :-)
There’s a tea cult? I’ve already exchanged some of my possessions for tea.
Mmmmmmm.
This one is so yum!!!!
I’m so sad that my Whispering Pines order didn’t come today. D:
I want to try mine but I can’t drink a black tea this late in the day.. tomorrow for sure!
You can make the chocolate sauce you describe by melting and combining coconut oil and chocolate chips (I do that from time to time)
Well…I kind of just decided that there was a GO Cult….cause ya know, it’s getting more and more followers. The Guru is Tea Whiz Of The Woods (Brenden). It’s VERY hard to resist all his charismatic teas…
Golden Orchid is the Kool-Aid of the Whispering Pines cult…
Tea Cults Are Us…just sayin’
Haha! Is wit a requirement to be a Steepster member? Cause I don’t know where else you can get as much for free!!!
And in this case cameron… DO DRINK THE KOOL-AID!!
Drink all the kool-aid! :D
The Illustrious Cult of the Golden Orchid
Guru: Tea Whiz of the Woods
Official Organizer & Cheerleader: TheTeaFairy
Meetings: Monthly, in the Steepster basement
Please bring a snack to share.
I’ll bring CHERRIES!!
I’ll bring mushrooms! ;)
I’ll bring tea flavoured bread.
Haha! And we can ask mj to bring her communal fridge!
Lol, Sarsonator, “The Illustrious Cult of the Golden Orchid” makes an awesome cult name!!!
I’ll make petit fours! With little pine trees on them!
I’ll bring almond flour scones! :)
I’ll sit in the back and drink all your tea! :p
And thanks, TTF! Glad you like the name!
LOL
I want to join the cult! But no more tea for me till black friday. I tried telling myself that buying samples didn’t count and I may cave there because the WP cult is ever so persuasive.
GO just sounds so decadent.
You’re not buying any tea until NOVEMBER?!?!?! Wow. I really envy your willpower.
There will be no black friday sale at WP. I am strongly against black friday. There will be a cyber monday sale though :)
I want to be the Court Jester for the cult. I’m trying to decide if I need to give in to my sudden GO craving or actualy sleep again tonight
I also dislike Black Friday. I refuse to leave my house. This year, though, maybe I will host an online Steepster Sipdown Fest!
HoneyBelle a.k.a MzPriss: You are now the official Cult Jester :p
Woo! I’m so like that HoneyBelle name as well I reeeeeeeeeely want some GO now
Hmmm…Sudden GO cravings are hard to resist….Court Jester, that’s exactly what we were missing :-)
(Oh, may I reserve my Fest tickets now Sarsonator?)
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You know – Steepster needs a chat
I am going to have to veto the idea of a Steepster Chat. If there was a Steepster Chat, I would never get anything done!!!! :p
I haven’t ever done one, but a friend of mine does some gaming chat and she loves it. But yeah, time sucker I bet
Well the tea buying may start on black friday but that doesn’t mean it’ll stop then…
It’s chat already ;)
Lol, boychik,I was just going to say that ;-)
I was also gonna say what boychik said. It’s kind of like a slow moving chat.
So we’re doing it? Cool.
I think people who go out shopping on Black Friday should get their heads examined. Pro Cyber Monday though.
I don’t go anywhere near any stores on Black Friday, but I definitely participate in the cyber monday tea sales!
This is going to sound super ignorant, but… What is Black Friday??
@Nattie – Black Friday is an unfortunate USA custom where all the retailers have these giant sales (allegedly) the day after Thanksgiving. It has gotten earlier and earlier to where now it starts on Thanksgiving. People trample each other and have fights over cheap TVs. It is an ugly custom in the stores. Cyber Monday, while sort-of the same thing – is online and much more civilized and NOT on a holiday you should be spending with your people instead of being in line for 12 hours to fight over stuff you can usually get just as good a deal on later.
Ahh okay, thanks! We have a similar thing over here with the Boxing Day sales, but at least it doesn’t start until after Christmas! Cyber Monday sounds much better (:
MzPriss, you slay me: “Black Friday is an unfortunate USA custom”
Could not agree more!
Yay!! That’s EXACTLY what it is!!!
Welcome to the GO Cult :-)
There’s a tea cult? I’ve already exchanged some of my possessions for tea.
Mmmmmmm.
This one is so yum!!!!
I’m so sad that my Whispering Pines order didn’t come today. D:
I want to try mine but I can’t drink a black tea this late in the day.. tomorrow for sure!
You can make the chocolate sauce you describe by melting and combining coconut oil and chocolate chips (I do that from time to time)
Well…I kind of just decided that there was a GO Cult….cause ya know, it’s getting more and more followers. The Guru is Tea Whiz Of The Woods (Brenden). It’s VERY hard to resist all his charismatic teas…
Golden Orchid is the Kool-Aid of the Whispering Pines cult…
Tea Cults Are Us…just sayin’
Haha! Is wit a requirement to be a Steepster member? Cause I don’t know where else you can get as much for free!!!
And in this case cameron… DO DRINK THE KOOL-AID!!
Drink all the kool-aid! :D
The Illustrious Cult of the Golden Orchid
Guru: Tea Whiz of the Woods
Official Organizer & Cheerleader: TheTeaFairy
Meetings: Monthly, in the Steepster basement
Please bring a snack to share.
I’ll bring CHERRIES!!
I’ll bring mushrooms! ;)
I’ll bring tea flavoured bread.
Haha! And we can ask mj to bring her communal fridge!
Lol, Sarsonator, “The Illustrious Cult of the Golden Orchid” makes an awesome cult name!!!
I’ll make petit fours! With little pine trees on them!
I’ll bring almond flour scones! :)
I’ll sit in the back and drink all your tea! :p
And thanks, TTF! Glad you like the name!
LOL
I want to join the cult! But no more tea for me till black friday. I tried telling myself that buying samples didn’t count and I may cave there because the WP cult is ever so persuasive.
GO just sounds so decadent.
You’re not buying any tea until NOVEMBER?!?!?! Wow. I really envy your willpower.
There will be no black friday sale at WP. I am strongly against black friday. There will be a cyber monday sale though :)
I want to be the Court Jester for the cult. I’m trying to decide if I need to give in to my sudden GO craving or actualy sleep again tonight
I also dislike Black Friday. I refuse to leave my house. This year, though, maybe I will host an online Steepster Sipdown Fest!
HoneyBelle a.k.a MzPriss: You are now the official Cult Jester :p
Woo! I’m so like that HoneyBelle name as well I reeeeeeeeeely want some GO now
Hmmm…Sudden GO cravings are hard to resist….Court Jester, that’s exactly what we were missing :-)
(Oh, may I reserve my Fest tickets now Sarsonator?)
liking not like
You know – Steepster needs a chat
I am going to have to veto the idea of a Steepster Chat. If there was a Steepster Chat, I would never get anything done!!!! :p
I haven’t ever done one, but a friend of mine does some gaming chat and she loves it. But yeah, time sucker I bet
Well the tea buying may start on black friday but that doesn’t mean it’ll stop then…
It’s chat already ;)
Lol, boychik,I was just going to say that ;-)
I was also gonna say what boychik said. It’s kind of like a slow moving chat.
So we’re doing it? Cool.
I think people who go out shopping on Black Friday should get their heads examined. Pro Cyber Monday though.
I don’t go anywhere near any stores on Black Friday, but I definitely participate in the cyber monday tea sales!
This is going to sound super ignorant, but… What is Black Friday??
@Nattie – Black Friday is an unfortunate USA custom where all the retailers have these giant sales (allegedly) the day after Thanksgiving. It has gotten earlier and earlier to where now it starts on Thanksgiving. People trample each other and have fights over cheap TVs. It is an ugly custom in the stores. Cyber Monday, while sort-of the same thing – is online and much more civilized and NOT on a holiday you should be spending with your people instead of being in line for 12 hours to fight over stuff you can usually get just as good a deal on later.
Ahh okay, thanks! We have a similar thing over here with the Boxing Day sales, but at least it doesn’t start until after Christmas! Cyber Monday sounds much better (:
MzPriss, you slay me: “Black Friday is an unfortunate USA custom”
Could not agree more!