Tea Testing

[affreca]

A couple of weeks ago I ordered a black tea sampler from Adagio Teas for no good reason. The six teas from the sampler plus the extra freebie have been sitting on the kitchen table ever since. Then I went to a tea party last night with KCCG.

One of the joys of a fully stocked kitchen is that I can declare I want to sample my teas, and have a tea kettle which whistles, a choice of tea pots (went with the blue one, not the waving kitty one), and enough strainers for two.

Yunnan Jig
It tastes like black tea.

It is a fuller flavor than most of the black tea I've drunk before. I like it.

Six more teas to try.

Comments

[verminiusrex.livejournal.com]

Whenever I hit either an Indian or Mediterranean market I usually try one or two new kinds of tea. One I got in Lawrence a couple weeks ago is a very small leaf cut, has a bit of powder, but I swear it makes the best tasting iced tea ever.

I have some English Breakfast from a Chicago business received as a gift that I need to work through. It's not a bad taste, but the aftertaste of Earl Gray and the like aren't among my favorites.

Oolong, that's a tea that you can't screw up by oversteeping. I've forgotten it for half an hour and still had good tea from a long steep.