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I am not a great fan of cinnamon generally. At first sip, this is all about the cinnamon. And then, something marvellous happens and then it slips into a sugar cookie, with cinnamon. So ok, if I need to have a large dose of cinnamon, then please give it to me wrapped in a buttery sugar cookie. The balance of all the bits, including the cinnamon, is super. The particular type of cinnamon flavour is nice too. Good job, 52Teas. Don’t change a thing.

Oh, also bears mentioning here that I do not recall ever having eaten a snickerdoodle, so I am not the one to be able to comment on how the tea compares.

I love watching these pearls unfurl in my clear glass steeper: like teeny delicate question marks tinting the water as they steep. Beautiful tea, delicate and fragrant. The jasmine scent is just the right balance for the tea itself. My afternoon had been moving along rather nicely and yet this fragrant tea has made it even better.

Thank you, Angel, for the sample.

Drinking this lovely tea throughout the afternoon brought me back in spirit to this lovely lovely town that I stayed in for a time in China and the teahouses that I spent hours contemplating life in. The teahouses I am talking about and the town that I am referring to are pictured here. (To be clear, this is not my blog.) One of my very favourite places in China. http://www.bootsintheoven.com/boots_in_the_oven/2012/03/zigong-sichuan.html

This tea is really growing on me. Perhaps it takes my tastebuds a bit of time to transit from my daily black teas to the subtleties of oolong and the gentle taste arrangements and rearrangements of one steep to the next. This tea is a bit of a kaleidoscope of milk, butter, coconut, honey, with the slightest bit of green. A masterpiece.

This cup is disappearing in greedy gulps after my initial slow luxurious sips once it had cooled enough for drinking.

Even when it begins to wane after five or six steeps, it is still lovely.

Yep, very delicious. Nothing new to add besides that it travels well. And that the fact that it contains rooibos comes as a surprise.

Today, I find myself wondering what a normal person spends on tea in a month. Nevermind.

Oh, and 300 notes—whooop!

Goodness gracious. I’ve been hanging out listening to the blues this morning and sipping on this loveliness. Such complexity that I wasn’t expecting. There’s walnut and then there’s chocolate and then there’s caramel. And that’s just straight up and unsweetened. Delicious.

A friend and I went out for Korean bbq at lunch today and then we ended up sitting in a park sipping bitter delicious Americanos. That, in addition to my morning tea was enough of the hardcore boom caffeine for me.

This tea is the perfect antidote to the strong flavours of the day. So gentle. The predominant flavour here is coconut with the slightest bit of vanilla mellowing out the pineapple apricot gently floating over the white and sencha base.

I have been moving through the last of this as a refreshing cold steep in between things of my day. The gentle soft flavours of cotton candy, a bit of marshmallow, and the beautiful buttery white tea base come out far more as a cold steep. The added flavours truly complement and highlight the base, so the base is the superstar here. To me, the citrus bits are unnecessary as they don’t add much beyond cutting the sweetness—perhaps that is their purpose. Though the blueberry is present in dry leaf, I am not detecting it as a flavour, nor did I when the tea was fresher.

Sil was kind enough to include a sample of this in our tea festival swap. Yum, it’s got that bready-chocolatey Laoshan black-like thing going on, but I may have steeped it too briefly to experience the full flavour components.

Thanks for this, Sil. Enjoyable on this lovely slow morning.