Mastress Alita’s sipdown challengeSunday, January 24th: National Compliment Day Tea #1
Additional notes: Now this is the ULTIMATE of sad sipdowns. I feel like I should have a funeral for this tea. This was the perfect day in the dead of winter to really work on some favorite teas I’m clinging to. So I looked at my Steepster cupboard, sorted by my rating, and picked some of the oldest teas around here that also just happened to be the best teas ever. I doubt even Mastress Alita could find the source of this tea. No list of ingredients on my Steepster Select package other than to say Company: Special Teas Etc and the Origin: Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. It also doesn’t help that a few companies were called ‘Special Teas’. Maybe I should try the Earls from the most obvious sources, that many tea companies source their teas from. I’m not really remembering what the common sources of teas are, at the moment… Anyway, this is the best Earl to the end and I will miss it the most. It was time! 100 rating even while this old!
2021 sipdowns: 10
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Someone on Steepster mentioned this one in one of the other notes for this tea. Not sure if they mean’t it was the same tea or just named after the other one. https://tiestatea.com/products/earl-grey-de-la-creme?variant=4348273229851
The second one looks like a match
OH, good catch, Lexie Aleah. I actually have the Tiesta (probably because the name is the same). And it’s hard to tell if it’s the same tea. Especially different harvests after all these years. It’s very similar and probably my new favorite Earl.
The Culinary – I didn’t see that one yet. I wish I knew where their teas were sourced from.
Actually Culinary might be sourced from English Tea Store and I don’t think English Tea Store’s Earl compares. But I know that many companies had to move to more natural bergamot these days so it might just be what I have to live with now.
If I remember right Culinary Tea’s sources their teas from different places?
Yeah, there are so many teas at Culinary it’s probably different sources. I’ll have to order some one day! ONE DAY. haha
I just found this one too. I wonder where they source from: https://camellia-sinensis.com/en/earl-grey-cream/2212
Someone on Steepster mentioned this one in one of the other notes for this tea. Not sure if they mean’t it was the same tea or just named after the other one. https://tiestatea.com/products/earl-grey-de-la-creme?variant=4348273229851
Or this one? https://culinaryteas.com/products/cream_earl_grey_tea
The second one looks like a match
OH, good catch, Lexie Aleah. I actually have the Tiesta (probably because the name is the same). And it’s hard to tell if it’s the same tea. Especially different harvests after all these years. It’s very similar and probably my new favorite Earl.
The Culinary – I didn’t see that one yet. I wish I knew where their teas were sourced from.
Actually Culinary might be sourced from English Tea Store and I don’t think English Tea Store’s Earl compares. But I know that many companies had to move to more natural bergamot these days so it might just be what I have to live with now.
If I remember right Culinary Tea’s sources their teas from different places?
Yeah, there are so many teas at Culinary it’s probably different sources. I’ll have to order some one day! ONE DAY. haha
I just found this one too. I wonder where they source from: https://camellia-sinensis.com/en/earl-grey-cream/2212