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“We are involuntary citizens of Chiefs Kingdom. People have gone crazy around here. Therefore, we have taken somewhat perverse pleasure in bucking the trend on this Superbowl Sunday…asked a...” Read full tasting note
“Strange VariaTEA TTB: Tea #8 I was a little intrigued by this one so I figured I’d give it a whirl, but sadly I found this flavour pretty muted – more of a floral black with malted elements and a...” Read full tasting note
“This is the second tea in today’s tournament style sipdown challenge pairing. It went head to head with another single-estate Palais des Thes tea, Genmaicha Yama. Check out the note for that here:...” Read full tasting note
Description
A blend of the best teas from the spring flush, this black tea is bursting with rich flavours: green almond, Muscat grapes, and grassy notes.
Tasting notes
Dry leaves
Colours: very varied: green, coppery, brown
Scents: notes of stewed and fresh fruit accompanied by floral notes, with an underlying toasted aroma
Infusion
Colours: green and coppery
Scents: woody, honey, fruity notes with a few spicy notes, all combined with fresher, more planty notes
Liquor
Colour: green and gleaming
Flavours: slight acidity and bitterness which gives this tea its long-lasting qualities
Aromatic profile and length in the mouth: a tea that develops as it lingers, well sustained by the astringency of the woody, vanilla notes and a few planty notes
We are involuntary citizens of Chiefs Kingdom. People have gone crazy around here. Therefore, we have taken somewhat perverse pleasure in bucking the trend on this Superbowl Sunday…asked a football-crazy friend, “Oh, is there a game today?”…went to our favorite geek video store after church (not a red Kansas City jersey in the place); got a stack of DVD’s ready for kickoff time… (Apologies to any football fan Steepster friends out there.)
But since “bucking the trend” is today’s theme, Darjeeling it is. Not a variety I often choose, but this sample is in need of a sipdown. This is a nice one. Smooth and silky in the mouth, a tiny bit of fruitiness (not the heavy grape peel I normally associate with Darjeeling), and the prettiest golden-copper color in the cup. Very drinkable without leaving your mouth dry. Good stuff.
Strange VariaTEA TTB: Tea #8
I was a little intrigued by this one so I figured I’d give it a whirl, but sadly I found this flavour pretty muted – more of a floral black with malted elements and a touch of muscatel flavour as well but all of those qualities in very flat and unrefined ways. I anticipate that this is one of those teas that, a few months from now, I probably wont even remember having tried…
You always remember the “great” and the “ghastly” when it comes to tea, but the things that fall in the middle?? Nope.
This is the second tea in today’s tournament style sipdown challenge pairing. It went head to head with another single-estate Palais des Thes tea, Genmaicha Yama. Check out the note for that here: https://steepster.com/rachel12610/posts/415972
Normally black teas trump green teas for me. That said, I do enjoy genmaicha quite a bit so I didn’t think this would be such an easy defeat for this black tea. Drinking it now, I am surprised that my preference is actually for the genmaicha.
While this may be a black tea, its not the type of black tea I usually go for. I like smooth, malty, bready, dessert-like black teas and this is not that. Instead, this is more brisk and a touch astringent. It’s got the floral quality of a darjeeling (I looked it up and it is a darjeeling) that might be nice for many but to me always reads drying. So this was a miss for me and thus Genmaicha Yama is moving on!
Check out a picture of the teas here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMA1JvPgOwi/?igshid=17oukytf2p49j
I don’t do the sports ball fan thing either. One of those cultural things I just don’t get.
Involuntary citizen of 49ers Kingdom. I’ll be grocery shopping during the big game today.
My way of relating to sports fans at work is by asking, “So how was that sportsball game?” People will gladly go on about it, then, realizing I said sportsball, give me a funny look then laugh. It’s a catch-all for any sports season and lets them know I don’t give a flying fig but also like to see them happy talking about what they enjoy :)
Occasionally, I’ll land the remote on Whatever Big Game is the Big Deal for 60 seconds so I can truthfully tell my boys, “I watched a teeny bit of the game…” Then again sometimes, I’ll ask them, “Now is that the ball with the pointy ends or the one you hit with a stick?”
I went to a graduation party yesterday and everyone there was saying how they had another party to attend after that one. I said “me, too!” (Which is wild because I am a homebody and rarely go anywhere.) They said, “Oh, you are going to a Super Bowl Party, too?” And I had to admit I didn’t know it was Super Bowl Sunday and was simply taking a gift to my best friend for her birthday.
The only shock here is that you still have a dvd rental in your town?! wow. I also don’t care about football… I love derk’s tactic though: “sportsball”. heh
One of the anchor stores at our local mall is called Vintage Stock (aka Geek Nirvana). The size of a small Walmart or Target; books, used books, games and working video equipment reaching back to the 90’s. And yes, believe it or not, rentals. Our thing has been to prowl the 99 cent “just take it away” bin to see who can find the most fun and obscure content. Hubby won on that particular Sunday with a Manhattan Transfer concert DVD.
Awesome — wish I had a place like that around here. Further shock: you still have a MALL around?!
Librarian here: we are the DVD rental in my town, heh.
hah, that is true! There are always the libraries. :D
Mall is about half empty except for pop-ups around Christmas, but it’s still supporting a few standards (Bath & Body Works, JoAnn’s Fabric & Crafts, a Penney’s, and an Old Navy).
OUr city “library” is a bookshelf at city hall :) Since we live in a little village outside our metro area, I don’t qualify for a card at the big one. I could get a card-for-pay…if I ever retire, that may be my present to myself.