Tonight we went to Segovia for our anniversary dinner and as always it was amazing. I’ve travelled a lot, and I feel very privileged to have one of the best restaurants I’ve ever eaten at right in my back yard. They do traditional and innovative tapas, and we tried four main dishes and then four desserts.

With dessert I had Darjeeling 2nd Flush Organic “Selimbong” black tea. I’m fairly certain this is from Cornelia bean, but not 100% sure.

This was really nice. I don’t have a lot of experiences with Darjeelings, but it’s an area I definitely want to explore more. I steeped this for maybe two minutes.
The liquor was bright orange and clear. There’s a fruity top note that I couldn’t quite identify and I wonder if it’s the characteristic muscatel flavour? A hint of smoke on the finish, a touch of bitterness that complimented the cup nicely.

The body was quite light and smooth, quit similar to a lot of greens.

Very tasty. I think I will need to pick some of this up.

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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