So I had some Yunnan. Nothing to write home about. It tastes similar to the Assam tea that I drink at home from Teavana. The leaves are long, unbroken, and almost grey-ish green-ish, with some golden flakes of leaves in there, too. I wasn't sure how much to put in my little cup sized tea strainer. I may have put too much in there to get the flavor, and just made strong tea...but not too strong tea. I'll try the "Black Gold" next, just because the name sounds interesting, and the Golden Monkey is just waiting for me...ok, so I've named 3 of the 5 teas that I got. Darjeeling is one more, and then...I can't remember the other one.
And another thing: they give you two free samples, and one of the samples isn't the one I ordered. I already have the Green Dragon one...whatever the full name is. Why would I order that?
I have so much of this tea I need to figure out a way to nicely store it at home and have some for work, too. Back to my tins idea. Sigh. I just don't want to have to buy some when I get them...but then I have to wash them, relabel them...ugh. And the ones I have are only one ounce anyway. Ugh.
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
March 9, 2008
Assam Gold Rain, from Teavana...I am not thoroughly impressed with this tea. A friend of mine bought some for me as a gift, and I've tried making some several times. The result: too strong, too weak, almost just right. It lacks fragrance, aroma. And the flavor is a tiny bit tinny, which depends on how strong or weak I make it, the stronger, the tinnier. It's more astringent that I think the Assams should be, though.
I also get why Irish and English breakfast teas need to be strong. I almost couldn't taste the tea when I was eating with scrambled eggs. But I at least made it right this time. So it was pretty good, just not great.
I also get why Irish and English breakfast teas need to be strong. I almost couldn't taste the tea when I was eating with scrambled eggs. But I at least made it right this time. So it was pretty good, just not great.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
1/15/08
I think I'm going break down and buy some more tea from Adagio. Although, since I'm off today maybe I'll go into Teavana, just to check it out, since it's a "random Tuesday" and it is unlikely to be very crowded. Their little shops are small. Or maybe I could go to a tearoom/teashop, like Kalesia...or somewhere else. I'll have to look at the teamap website, to see what I can find.
Meanwhile, I'm home today, drinking more Irish Breakfast. It does come on strong! Even though I used far less than the last time, I understand why people talk about it being strong. Whew! It's also more astringent that I expect, too. In fact, it's strong like coffee is strong. It of course has a different flavor than coffee, but it has the taste kick that coffee does, yet isn't as bitter as coffee. It would make sense to drink coffee with milk and sugar, and I can see why you'd do the same thing to tea, yet, this tea doesn't need the milk or sugar as much. I have the impression (inaccurately, I'm sure) that the poor would have preferred tea to coffee because it's easier to drink without milk and sugar. When I think about this, though, I realize that the French didn't go this route. Just the English. Of course, tea would have been cheaper than coffee because of the trade monopolies that the English had with India and China, in a way that the French did not. Or the Italians, etc. Interesting...
Meanwhile, I'm home today, drinking more Irish Breakfast. It does come on strong! Even though I used far less than the last time, I understand why people talk about it being strong. Whew! It's also more astringent that I expect, too. In fact, it's strong like coffee is strong. It of course has a different flavor than coffee, but it has the taste kick that coffee does, yet isn't as bitter as coffee. It would make sense to drink coffee with milk and sugar, and I can see why you'd do the same thing to tea, yet, this tea doesn't need the milk or sugar as much. I have the impression (inaccurately, I'm sure) that the poor would have preferred tea to coffee because it's easier to drink without milk and sugar. When I think about this, though, I realize that the French didn't go this route. Just the English. Of course, tea would have been cheaper than coffee because of the trade monopolies that the English had with India and China, in a way that the French did not. Or the Italians, etc. Interesting...
Friday, December 21, 2007
12/21/07 Part III
A letter I wrote to the Adagio people...
Merry Christmas! I love the Golden Monkey. I was on the teavana.com website, and they are charging $18.50 for 2 oz. of Golden Monkey, whereas you charge so much less. Do you know why the difference? I am a customer of yours, and a loyal one, so I'm just curious more than anything.
One other thing, though. I notice that you have musical names to go with your teas. That makes it difficult to compare your varieties with other tea sellers...
I'm not sounding so loyal...I'm just trying to explore the different teas (mainly black teas at this point). Thanks for your help!
Also...do you know of any teapots that have infusers where the infuser has a handle that can be used to pull the infuser out of the pot without having to reach into the pot and burn your fingers (and contaminate the tea), or use some other tool to do that. Because if you don't pull the infuser and tea leaves out of the pot, you have to serve it all at once. Not ideal.
Thanks for everything!
Merry Christmas! I love the Golden Monkey. I was on the teavana.com website, and they are charging $18.50 for 2 oz. of Golden Monkey, whereas you charge so much less. Do you know why the difference? I am a customer of yours, and a loyal one, so I'm just curious more than anything.
One other thing, though. I notice that you have musical names to go with your teas. That makes it difficult to compare your varieties with other tea sellers...
I'm not sounding so loyal...I'm just trying to explore the different teas (mainly black teas at this point). Thanks for your help!
Also...do you know of any teapots that have infusers where the infuser has a handle that can be used to pull the infuser out of the pot without having to reach into the pot and burn your fingers (and contaminate the tea), or use some other tool to do that. Because if you don't pull the infuser and tea leaves out of the pot, you have to serve it all at once. Not ideal.
Thanks for everything!
12/21/07 Part II
Golden Monkey...I looked at the Adagio website, and it's $4 for a 2 oz tin, whereas for the same amount at teavana, it's $18.50! Yikes. Not sure why the difference. I'm having the last of the Golden Monkey from Adagio right now, it's a bit weak, and so not as good as I'd like, but still drinkable. It's still soothing to the soul.
Meanwhile, I came across the cast iron teapots...they are soooo nice! And expensive. But I'm back to the infuser problem: they have the infusers that fit into the pot, but how are you supposed to remove them once the tea is done steeping??? They don't have any kind of handle or anything to get them out of the near boiling, cooling liquid. An improvement, no doubt, but still not good enough. There needs to be a handle on these infusers and a slot in the lid to let the infuser handle stick out.
Meanwhile, I came across the cast iron teapots...they are soooo nice! And expensive. But I'm back to the infuser problem: they have the infusers that fit into the pot, but how are you supposed to remove them once the tea is done steeping??? They don't have any kind of handle or anything to get them out of the near boiling, cooling liquid. An improvement, no doubt, but still not good enough. There needs to be a handle on these infusers and a slot in the lid to let the infuser handle stick out.
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