drank Almond Biscotti by Teaopia
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well, my insurrectionist tendencies (ie: plying samples of verdant and butiki on the staff at teavana… hee hee hee) yielded me a very surprising result: one of the women with whom i was sharing brought in A SHOPPING BAG of tea in thanks!!! previous to teavana she had worked at teaopia and had samples from there as well.

i have samples from tiny little tea shops in china town, teavana, teaopia…. although i may now have concerns about the samples from teaopia. apparently that store shut down half way through 2012? and while this tea smells persuasive, i am not persuaded.

what to do when assessing a tea under exceptional circumstances? well, for me i will comment honestly but will refrain from assigning a numerical value…the tea was a lovely thought, but i’m wondering if it is stale.

i love almond, i love the taste of baking in tea! alas, i do not love this tea. i saw the chocolate and caramel bits (reminds me of david’s teas), the slices of almond, the small black texture of the tea, however very little of what i see i can also taste. a lovely idea, and i’m not sure if it’s as a result of being stale, but for all my steeping and my awesome stainless steel basket technique…. i’m really getting nothing.

in order to lick my wounded tea persona with an appropriate level of stylishness i am going to toss out the rest of this mess and try my american tea room ‘formosa plum’. (very well to do… apparently they’re out of beverly hills, fancy fancy!)

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 5 min, 0 sec
Dexter

I miss Teaopia – I loved Teaopia. There were a few Teaopia blends available from Teavana until Starbucks took over earlier this year (?). Creamy Nut Oolong is dearly missed in my world…..
If memory serves me correctly Almond Biscotti was a lot like Davids Forever Nuts.

JustJames

oh, then that explains it…. i did not like forever nuts. add to that the stale factor…. it did not with a happy fate in my cup. (ie: it didn’t stay there for long!)

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Dexter

I miss Teaopia – I loved Teaopia. There were a few Teaopia blends available from Teavana until Starbucks took over earlier this year (?). Creamy Nut Oolong is dearly missed in my world…..
If memory serves me correctly Almond Biscotti was a lot like Davids Forever Nuts.

JustJames

oh, then that explains it…. i did not like forever nuts. add to that the stale factor…. it did not with a happy fate in my cup. (ie: it didn’t stay there for long!)

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