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Ashmanra’s sipdown challenge – May 2023 Tea #8 – A flavored black tea

This tasting note will probably just fly away into the Steepster abyss, but here we go.  Finished this old old amount of ToL for the prompt for a flavored black tea.  Amazing amount of flavor even still.  But that’s the old flavoring for ya (less “natural” flavors now, so probably just not.the.same. with the new batches.)     This last cup was a delight!  Sidenote, I have not had a sipdown in A WHILE. uh oh.  Way behind on sipdowns now.  And then I just couldn’t resist the super cheap teas for the Maya Tea sale.  Mainly because I love their raspberry black.
2023 sipdowns: 49 

gmathis

I had an old school TOL tin that just kept giving and giving…sorry to hear the formulation has changed.

ashmanra

I feel your pain on the sipdowns. I think my cupboard went up by sixteen or more this month, and only about half that many sipdowns. I have to try harder next month!

Michelle

It’s hard to pass up 25% off, isn’t it. I will have lots of raspberry and apricot tea to sip on this summer :)

tea-sipper

oh darn Michelle – I should have asked you before I ordered since I still owe you some teas at some point. Will have eight ounces of raspberry (it was only $11! what the heck!) so I could have shared some of that with you if you hadn’t ordered it yourself. :D

Michelle

No worries tea-sipper, you can send me different and ‘new to me’ teas, I know I like Maya raspberry already. I have the TTB headed my way so lots of new to me teas arriving soon, no rush for you.

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gmathis

I had an old school TOL tin that just kept giving and giving…sorry to hear the formulation has changed.

ashmanra

I feel your pain on the sipdowns. I think my cupboard went up by sixteen or more this month, and only about half that many sipdowns. I have to try harder next month!

Michelle

It’s hard to pass up 25% off, isn’t it. I will have lots of raspberry and apricot tea to sip on this summer :)

tea-sipper

oh darn Michelle – I should have asked you before I ordered since I still owe you some teas at some point. Will have eight ounces of raspberry (it was only $11! what the heck!) so I could have shared some of that with you if you hadn’t ordered it yourself. :D

Michelle

No worries tea-sipper, you can send me different and ‘new to me’ teas, I know I like Maya raspberry already. I have the TTB headed my way so lots of new to me teas arriving soon, no rush for you.

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Hi! I love tea and trying new ones – it adds a bit of variety to my day! Books, music, TV & movies are my thing… and tea, of course.

Some of my favorite tea shops (still operating):
birdandblendtea.com
teavivre.com
52teas.com
svtea.com
whisperingpinestea.com
justea.com
harney.com
Dammann Freres
fusionteas.com
shop.Javateaco.com
Lupicia
Octaviatea.com
Davidstea.com
eco-cha.com
what-cha.com
singleoriginteas.com
teasenz.com
tealyra.com
Mandalatea.com
verdanttea.com

Favorite tea shops (RIP):
butikiteas.com
steapshoppe.com
steepcityteas.com
aquartertotea.com
dellaterrateas.com
zentealife.com
angrytearoom.com
theteamerchant.net
joysteaspoon.com
tealiciousllc.com
Rivertea
Specialteas

My icon photo is Richard Mayhew from the graphic novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey & Glenn Fabry.

Most of the teas listed in my cupboard are actually sample sizes. I don’t really have 2,000 ounces of tea around here! Many of my teas have only one teaspoon left… maybe two. But I like keeping them in my cupboard list for reference to what I could be sipping. Usually, I write tasting notes once for each tea. I’m still drinking them, just not writing tasting notes each time!

I’m always in search of: Hattialli, Qu Hao black, Jin Jun Mei, teas using marshmallow root.

My dislikes: hibiscus, ginger (unless in chai), turmeric, bee pollen, charcoal type flavors

My ratings:
95-100 – Super awesome deliciousness favorites – cupboard essential
80-95 – Also pretty delicious
65-80 – Pretty good
50-65 – Okay
1-50 – Probably won’t want to sip it again

I’m planning on being a Steepsterer as long as there IS a Steepster, so if you’re not hearing from me, that means something happened to my health… if you know what I mean. (Or as evidenced by the great computer hiatus of 2019, something happened to my computer… I have a dumb phone so can’t access internet on that. As of 12/20/21 my wifi might start getting unreliable.)

Happy sipping!

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