Metropolitan Tea Company

iced & unsweetened. I never would’ve thought to have it this way, but it was great! (at Lexington Tea House)

last serving of this, with milk and sugar because I’m feeling contrary this morning (yesterday I liked it best iced with sugar only).

Fell asleep late, overslept, and am still having trouble feeling alert late this rainy morning. It is time for caffeine. (Actually I should have had some hours ago!)

Since I just tried Paris with sugar and no milk last week, and found it surprisingly pleasant, I decided to do the same with Monk’s Blend.

I have been absent from Steepsterton for way too long simple because I HAD NO TEA. Living at the tip of James Bay (northern Ontario) for two months with a 25lb weight limit for baggage to get up here has put a major cramp in my tea drinking style. The only thing available to me has been bagged Tetely Orange Pekoe (drinkable but not really postworthy). But (drum roll please!), courtesy of my amazing friends down south, and my birthday, I received no fewer then three packages of delicious looking loose leaf – one of which is this blend that I’ve been wanting to try forever (being a huge fan of grenadine-filled Shirley Temple’s as a child).

YAAAAAAAYYYYY! happy tea dance

So expect postings fellow Steepsterites, I’m through with lurking!!

Oh, and to make this slightly about the tea, while I haven’t gotten to brew it up yet the dry tea smell is just lovely – sweet-sweet melded with a nice black tea nippiness and warm vanilla notes – YUM!!

Fairly smooth and buttery. A little dry on the back of the throat, but not a bad bagged tea.

I just got this tea from a swap with many other teas from Teaequalsbliss,thanks so very much! by the way. This I’s a teabag dry this smells abit like berry. I steeped it up and now can smell the berry more with a hint of sweetness. Taste wise this tastes like black tea with a blackberry thats natural but not over tart with abit of sweetness of the maple. Now blackberry is not one of my favorite berries but with the maple it tones that tartness down. So this is pretty good.

I’m pretty sure this is the sweet iced tea I had with dinner at the teahouse. A squeeze of lemon gave it a summery feel. Strawberry flavor is strong but natural tasting and not overpowering.

This has become my “go to” tea. Every day I do two brews of this and have to stop myself from hitting it again.

A wonderful tea. Another of my favorites to have nearby when I write! Not too strong, very flavorful! It genuinely tastes of honey!

I’ve decided that this is so-so. I wouldn’t get it again. If I steep it long enough to get a decent amount of flavour, it gets bitter. If I steep it briefly enough to avoid the bitterness, the tea is too mild.

A very mild tea, much like the Margaret’s Hope darjeeling I had last week. I’m going to try to get more flavour out of it before I rate it. This cup definitely doesn’t have “haunting malty notes with deep Bordeaux-like flavour.”

Interesting. I’m going to play with the steeping a bit before passing judgment.

This tea is a prime example of why I need to drink down more of my tea before I buy more… which is getting really hard to not buy more right now… (New summer collection next week at Davidstea!!)

Anyway, this tea was found in my house… on my kitchen counter… in a fancy tea tin holder thing that my sis-in-law got me for Christmas a few years ago from Teaopia. I’ve been reusing the tins and I put this one in the one tin and didn’t label it. I’m positive it’s this one as it looks like it a few different teas mixed together like this one has.

And it’s absolutely delicious. I really enjoyed it this morning… Now it’s time to use this one up and move something else into it. I will drink down these teas and love every minute of it!