1112 Tasting Notes
Delightful! I taste peaches!!!!!!! THIS is the taste I remember from the delicious green teas I’ve had at tea houses! Also, the curly snail looking leaves are adorable. :)
2nd steep, resteeping for 4 minutes: No peach, but still very tasty. Almost tastes flowery, like a jasmine. Still very delicious and enjoyable.
3rd steep, resteeping for 5 minutes: Still some good flavor, but I think it’s done after this one.
I like to take a minute out of this review and THANK YOU ALL, Steepster site and Steepster participants! I’ve learned SO MUCH about tea in my short time here, and have really expanded my horizons. I didn’t even know you could resteep tea before joining!!! :)
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Yum. Still my favorite-est favorite!!! When I don’t know what I want – I make this. I don’t know if it’s the filtered water or if this portion is just extra scrumptious but the coconut is so fresh and alive! This one always gets a positive comment out of my husband.
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You all would be proud of me – I took my tiny cheesemaking thermometer (smaller than a pen!) to work so I could make greens and oolongs! It wasn’t any trouble at all. This was my first one (and I do mean first one – I’ve never brewed green tea myself!).
It brewed to a beautiful golden color. It’s not very vegetal or very smoky. It’s not bitter. It’s a very solid tea :) but it’s not blowing me away. I would drink it again but probably not go out of my way to repurchase. I’ll be able to give better reviews once I’m familiar with more greens.
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Just back from seeing Avatar. My heart hurts! I needed something extremely comforting and chose a double portion of this. I love the way you still taste tea as well as the chocolate – I bet it’s not easy to achieve that balance (and something I feel Harney & Sons is particularly good at with all of their teas).
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I love dessert teas, but I’m very fickle about them- being able to taste the tea is a must. Glad this qualifies!
I’ve heard there are some eye-straining problems with Avatar. Something to do with papyrus subtitles which I can’t really imagine. Is it a good story otherwise?
I liked it a lot. I was fine with the subtitles (they were few and far between). I was so into the Avatar world that I was completely disoriented when someone needed to get through to use the restroom! (Maybe I’m a big sap, but) I cried from about the middle to the end!!! People were saying that it was predictable, but I thought a better way of putting it was that the story was archetypal. I won’t give anything away in case you decide to go see it!
Cool. :) I think I’ll see if I can go and see it.
Very fruity and full bodied. I had it plain, but I would have loved some sweetener. I’m not sure if a splash of milk would have made it awful or interesting! I think it would have been nice, like Earl Grey. Maybe next time!
There was a reason for my not using anything but tea – I read my tea leaves!
Here is a photo of the cup that I used (from the Art & Tea blog):
http://artandtea.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/tea-leaf-reading/
My reading had the heart – and the tea leaves were in the shape of a heart over it! “Love and romance are on the menu. This could mean spending time with your partner or the beginning of a new relationship . Your home life is also important to you now, which could signify a move, or making improvements on your current home.”
the sunrise – “A new beginning, a sense of rebirth, or a fresh start are signified by this symbol.”
and Venus – “Love, art, and harmony bring delightful interludes. You should be feeling creative and romantic.”
These make sense to me :) I have plans to go out with my husband tomorrow to see a film, take photographs, and get a bite to eat! I spent the day cooking for the coming week, working on a crochet blanket for my sofa, and thinking about a table runner I want to make. I’m about to start my new semester in school next week!
The book says you should use the symbols on the cup, or look for your own symbols, but unless you are experienced you shouldn’t mix the two. Well, I’m not experienced, but I can’t help but see the shape of the United States in the bottom of my cup, some lines, and a sailboat! I would say that not right away, but sometime this year I’m going to travel!
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Leaves reading! That’s so cool! I love the cup, even for just an ordinary design. How difficult is it to learn? I’ve got a deck of tarot cards that I’ve never fully learned to read, but I like to take them out now and then and just look at them because I like the pictures. Sometime I choose a few random ones and look them up in my book, but I wouldn’t say I was capable of a real reading.
Yes, I thought the cup was really nice looking too. I didn’t think it was hard to do – much easier than Tarot cards. I am fascinated with the Tarot too :) Which deck do you have? There are so many beautiful ones, but the one that speaks to me is the plain ole Rider Waite deck! I do like to do readings with the Tarot, too. I almost think it’s like learning an instrument! If you draw a card a day and no pressure, just look at it, get your impressions of it, then read a little about it, you’ll know the deck a lot more familiarly, like practicing your notes and scales. Before you know it, you’ll be playing songs (doing readings!).
Yeah, I tend not to want to do the learning bit first. I tend to want to read the book and then expect to be able to do it afterwards, so I don’t really have the patience to learn. When I bought mine they had the Rider Waite deck and Crowley’s Thoth deck and I picked the latter because I liked the detailed abstract-ish pictures and also it was the same deck used in the book I had, so it seemed more practical even if the book said RW would be a better choice for a beginner than Thoth because the Thoth pictures have so many different elements in them. It’s the complexity about them that I like, I think. There are several of them that I wouldn’t think twice about hanging on my wall as art. I did buy a notebook, though, and have been writing down which cards I’ve picked (most of the time) and what I got out of it at the time, which has been helpful in getting my thoughts lined up properly about what I thought about the card that I picked.
There was a supposed ‘beginners reading’ described in the book with three cards, but it’s all so abstract and I get stuck on just trying to figure out exactly what each card is supposed to represent.
I need to start keeping them in a place where I see them, because the current storage solution means that I forget I have them a lot, until I see stuff like this that reminds me.
Another sweet one! I just realized that this is the first week since Thanksgiving that I haven’t been surrounded by baked goods! I think my body is asking, “Where are the cookies?!?!?” Thankfully, the light chocolate and hazelnut flavors are calming my inner cookie monster. I’m enjoying it with some cream and sugar to make it a satisfying dessert tea.
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Chose this for my afternoon tea. I was so in the mood for something sweet and fruity. It’s delicious, and this is the first time that my coworkers commented that my tea smelled good :) The only “problem” is that this was my last serving!!
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You know those days when you are behind before you even started? I came in to work an hour late because of my dental appointment and EVERYTHING needed immediate attention! I was drowning, and my usual response would have been to grab a cup of coffee. I chose this instead. It sure did wake me up, but I don’t feel jittery like I would have after (the third cup of!) coffee. I feel alert, focused, and ready to tackle all of this work! It tasted wonderful too :) Very bold but balanced – cream and sugar lovely. This is now my go-to-instead-of-coffee tea!
Had this again last night. I had an appointment with the accountant previously, and a 7:30 am dentist appointment this morning! I probably could have used something much stronger than rooibos, but, since I have an active imagination, it sufficed! I felt warm, comforted, relaxed, and fell asleep (and stayed asleep!) within a half hour of my last, tasty, sip. I really have to look into some more flavors :)
