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I got this sample from the wonderful TeaTiff. I had planned on having it yesterday, but I knew it would be a full day tea, and after really only being in the office a few hours, I knew it just wasn’t to be.

I’m glad I waited. This truly has been an all day tea experience.

I’m doing a pseudo gongfu cha experience. I’m using my 5oz finum hot glass system, but I used the entire sample, and I’m doing multiple short steeps. I started out with a 5s rinse, and then 15s steep…my last steep was 6m.

The early steeps were really creamy and sweet, sort of a light caramel flavor. Delicious. The aroma was amazing. (I wish I wrote down notes on what it was like. I just know it was amazing.)

Middle steeps were creamy butter, a little vegetal. At some point, I decided I wanted a sugar cookie with my tea, that I just happened to have, and it went perfectly.

Then buttery popcorn, you know the kind where it’s dripping butter and it coats the bottom of the bowl. That is all I could think of.

Now as I’m finishing this up, it’s back to that vegetal flavors, not strong but nice. It still has that outstanding feeling in my mouth.

I may try for a couple more steeps of this one before I leave the office for the day. It has been perfect. I’m really glad I took the entire day to enjoy this, as it has been a tea meant to be enjoyed through all of these different stages.

On the plus side, I’m using yesterday’s accident as an excuse to get new graphics for my MINI. I’m very excited with that. I’ve been thinking about changing things up, but I could never decide on anything I wanted to do, and why change what’s not broken, right? But now they have to replace of the the panels with vinyl, so it’s forcing me to think about it. I have to make up my mind my tomorrow, but I think I’ve come up with a way to keep my number but totally change things up, and I found some new stripes I think I like for the bonnet and boot. It’s all good.

(p.s. I’m going to hold off on a numerical rating on this until I try the other two milk oolongs I got from TeaTiff.)

Editing to add that I have done those next two steeps I talked about, 9 and 12m. It still tastes good. I wish I had time for a few more, but I’m tired of being at work. And now I’m also craving popcorn dripping with tons of real butter.