772 Tasting Notes
This is a sample from…someone from simply ages ago that I’m finally getting around to. It’s in my little box of single serving stuff that I don’t put on my cupboard. It smells delicious and with my new kettle at work I have a liiiittle more control over temperature so hopefully I picked the correct one (it said 200F on the little package so I went with that). Made it in my adorable rabbit teapot and off we go!
Still pretty limey. Almost tastes like lime-ade if I use my imagination a bit. Goes surprisingly well with my lunch of a lemon artichoke quinoa bowl thing. Tasty.
In other news, my DavidsTea order came in the mail but I haven’t had time to open it yet because I’ve been having the week from hell. I might not even open the box until Saturday. It really has been awful. 13 and 14 hour workdays and depression and yuck. I need a weekend desperately.
In other other news, you can now learn Klingon on Duolingo.
Had this again this morning. Much better this time with only half a teaspoon of matcha in a cup of latte. Much more orange and less bitter. I’ve got quite a bit of this left so I’ll be drinking it down. i’ll try not to overwhelm you all with tasting notes about it. Assume I’m having it every morning, I suppose. Every workday morning anyway.
Made this this morning at work, I think I put too much matcha in for the quantity of liquid because it’s a teensy bit bitter/strong. I’m used to my older matchas and although this is aged, it was in a sealed package in my freezer until very recently so it’s aged better than most of them. Still, the orange flavour is still strong and I’ll try again tomorrow with a bit less matcha, possibly lower temperature water/milk and see what happens.
Well, the dry and wet smell of this one is not so great. It’s super old but peppermint is one of those things that usually lingers. There’s something else to it, but I can’t seem to get my arms around it.
Taste-wise, this is…okay. Just okay. Slightly minty, more earthy than I expected and drinkable but just okay. Probably partly age to blame but the package was completely still sealed until about half an hour ago so probably not entirely that to blame.
I’m not sure how I tolerated this tea before but it has not gotten better with age. There is a sort of sickly something I’m tasting in the cup and it did not go well with dinner at all. The flavour was plenty strong but there was just something about it that turned me off. Couldn’t even finish the pot.
Soooo delicious. I was blown away at how much flavour was left in this tea given it’s age and it was just perfect to hit the spot this evening.
I never would have thought to combine blackberry and sage! Is it savory?
I think Liquid Proust combined these two flavours at one point too.
It’s more sweet, but then, I tend to add sweetener. The sage just adds a bit of something that makes the whole thing come together. So much better than just straight blackberry somehow.
This past week’s Tea of the Week is also a Blackberry Sage tea – Yunnan grown Teas (A golden Yunnan & an Assamica grown in Yunnan Province) with blackberries and white sage. It’s really good. I don’t have it yet available for sale because I need more pouches . . . but it will be on the website later this coming week.
ooooooh, I shouldn’t be buying tea but I might not be able to resist that.
This is old and it shows. Slight hint of sweetness but any flavour is gone. Still kind of soothing to drink with the matcha taste even if it is very mild.
