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Equusfell drank Wedding Tea by Harney & Sons

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I was pretty excited about this tea when I opened my Harney & Sons sample package last night. It smells gorgeous, just like a wedding! It smelled like a florist’s shop had a baby with a cake icing factory. Delicious fresh floral scent with a vanilla buttercream icing on top.
Which is why it’s kind of disappointing now that it’s hot. It’s still primarily vanilla, but the majority of the floral is gone. It’s almost like it’s been replaced with a chamomile-like impostor! I had to add a cube of sugar to make the vanilla dominate the sip.
Honestly, though I often like the IDEA of creamy teas, something about tea being brewed in WATER makes me upset that it tastes like cream.
In the brewed tea, I get more of a vanilla, maybe slightly lemony, custard vibe which just doesn’t jive well with the fact that I’m drinking flavored water. >.<
Totally still drinkable, I’m just so disappointed because of what it could have been.
And y’all should know how much I detest chamomile….

Flavors: Custard, Floral, Frosting, Lemon, Vanilla

Preparation

195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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I started drinking something other than Sleepytime in my first year of grad school, 2011. Enabled by a few decent local tea shops in a big city, I amassed a small cupboard of teas that I now find harsh and bad (haha, I’m getting in too deep!). With my move back to the US and subsequent geographic isolation from tea shops, I recently discovered the world of online tea vendors.
My cupboard is slowly growing but still small. Regardless I am interested in swaps, if you find something in my collection that you would like to try, ask away! I just can’t guarantee yet that I have a lot of it!
I’m very into Jade oolongs and anything that has a floral character (especially jasmine, rose, violet, and lychee scented things!). Most green teas, excepting the extremely bitter, are good in my book, and again I seek sweeter, fresher, greener types, though nutty/savory teas have their place (as long as they don’t tip over into salty!). I then to shy away from smokey or overly roasted teas and for this reason and the fact that I am not a fan of chocolate, everyone’s favorite blacks and wuyi oolongs tend to fall flat for me. White teas are alright but I don’t tend to reach for them unless they are floral scented. I rarely drink herbals, chamomile and I do not get along, but a basic vanilla rooibos, or some flavored green rooibos’ can be interesting.
In general, it could be said that I tend toward floral and sweet oolong, sheng (as well as moonlight whites and yabaos), matcha, and green teas.

As of now my rating system follows the school grading scale in terms of how well the tea performs and how well I like it (100-90 A, 89-80 B, etc.). Anything above 90 will eventually end up in my cupboard, though it’s fine to keep a B student around for daily drinkers!

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Athens, Ohio

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