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This was my 3 am middle of the night tea and I’m having it again at 6 with a little break for morning Special Dark (mmmmm) ritual. I was going to switch it up it, but it’s hard to mess with perfection so…
This is from my stash of the “old” vanilla, and while I do love the “new” vanilla just bit a more, I have to say that in the unlikely event you can let your stash of GO lounge around for a while, it just gets better and better – even more vanilla fudge flavor. Just so smooth and lovely.
Oh, MzPriss, I don’t know how you do it. I would DIE with only that much sleep. But this is an excellent tea for the middle of the night….the morning….the afternoon lol
I can’t believe I haven’t reviewed this one yet…I love the new vanilla too! ( 3am? We are creatures of the night…)
@mj – I don’t know how I do it either, but I’ve been doing it so long, it is just how it is – but hey! at least I have good tea to do it with
@TFI can’t believe you haven’t reviewed it either!!! and yeah 3 am – we really are creatures of the night. I get some books read that way though :)
Yep, thank god for tea and books! Lol, I went to bed at 5 and it looks like I’m up now! Oh well, at least I don’t have to go to work, so no complaints here. And I,m like you, been going on for so long, I’m used to it!
It’s impressive! My brain does not work if I get less than 7 hours of sleep, which makes lab activities pretty difficult….plus it makes me pretty cranky. I guess I’m just a big baby when it comes to sleep haha
You know, for the most part, I love my life pretty well. I am fortunate to have a job that while extremely intense and stressful, I love it, I’m good at it and I work with really great people, I live in a place I love, have sweet little house with a HUGE yard and a great garden and I’m really lucky with my the friends I have – but seriously – not being able to sleep reallyreallyrealyrealyreally SUCKS it and I envy those of you that can. I would give up a significant amount of things to be able to sleep.
I had a serious struggle with insomnia for about a year. It is an awful feeling and I sympathize with you MzPriss. All you want to do is sleep and your body/mind will not let you. My husband could fall asleep in 2 mins once his head hit the pillow so he never understood. I hope you are able to find ways to get as much rest as you can.
Awww thank you. It’s been going on for years and I manage it, but I’m really envious of people who can sleep. And having GO in the middle of the night and a good book helps :)
@MzPriss, are you reading anything good lately?
I have been a Creature of the Night for most of my life. When I was 6 I was prone to wander in the middle of the night. It started with wandering around my house (mom was a very heavy sleeper & dad was in the navy). I’m hypersensitive to a lot of things, including sounds, so I loved (& still love)the silence, plus everything looks so amazingly different in the dark, there is a soothing quality to a lack of color. My wanderings took me into my back yard, then into my front yard. All around the neighborhood. I laid in the damp grass, looking at the stars. I became life long friends with the moon. It came to a screeching halt when my friend Jill spent the night & we went for a full moon stroll in our PJs. We played on the school playground, walked all over the place, then some lady asked us why we were out at night.
“She was spending the night & got scared, so I’m walking her home” I replied (creativity has it’s perks…including the ability to make stuff up, just like that!).
She kept driving around the block, so I slipped into stealth mode & we went into my next door neighbor’s backyard, thinking we gave her the slip. When she was gone, we silently crept back into my house, & tried to go to sleep.
Next thing you know, the doorbell rang, then Mom’s voice, “Terri…”
Busted! That lady had called the cops!
I go through periods of late nights activities, & if I start to do anything, especially of a creative nature, after 10pm, I’ll be up til 3:00. But I have noticed as I’m getting older that I require at least an average of 7.5 hours of sleep. I can get by on 6 for a few nights, 3 occasionally, but my body really needs the rest.
Oh terri, we have so much in common…I’ve been that little girl too…still am I think. You were right, you do have some fairy blood! LOVE your story, thanks for sharing :-)
OMG this kind of freaks me out that we all have this in common. I used to do what my vraother called “waking the house”. She had an old house with creaky floors. I believed that I knew where all the creaks were and that she didn’t hear me when I did all my roaming. Although she thought I stayed IN the house and just walked around – I always always went outside and walked around her neighborhood. It was a small town and I would walk around, climb up into the big oak trees, play in the park and I spent hours upon hours upon hours looking up at the moon.
I have no idea what a “vraother” is. That was supposed to be grandmother. I hate doing this from my phone :)
@mj – I’m reading a yoga book right now called “The Subtle Body” and I’m also working my way through that tea shop mystery series. The Indigo tea shop one. I do ’t think her writing is all that great and she gets a few tea things wrong – like the being stores in glass jars – but they pass the time OK. What are you reading?
Ok…this is freaky. My story is at my grand parent’s farm. Acres and acres of land. I’d go bare footed also in my nightgown with the dogs and climb the the apple trees. I’d just stay stay there and look at the moon.
You gals, your stories are amazing :-)
(And I can’t get passed vraother, I’m snorting out loud!!! )
Yeah – bless my heart, I’m laughing too.
Seriously? You girls are the only people I’ve ever known that did this besides me! Unless you want to count adults with Alzheimer…
ROFL!!!!
My vraother (I decided to embrace vraother) wanted my mom to take me to the doctor because she was worried that I “walked the house” all night long and thought I was sleep walking and might hurt myself. I was totally awake and I like outside at night. When we lived in the country, my hub and used to take futon mattress out onto our top floor deck and sleep out there if the Mosquitos weren’t too bad.
My own vraother would sometimes join me :-) no wonder I,m an insomniac, I got encouragement!
Awww, the futon thing is adorable…
I go sleep outside in the Gazebo all the time…especially when it rains.
LOL I sleep on my back screen porch when it rains. It just never rains here enough anymore :(
And I LOVE that your vraother did it with you! That is awesome!!!
I never night-wandered, probably because my parents put a healthy fear of being abducted/and or murdered into me (you can’t blame them; they both worked in law enforcement and saw a lot of terrible things). I did, however, like to go out and swim in the pool late at night, but my mom or grandma was usually with me. I got away with NOTHING lol and even when I thought I got away with something, I found out years later that my mom knew and just let it slide.
MzPriss, I’ll have to check that tea shop series out! I just finished the second book of The Kingkiller Chronicles by Rothfuss. It was ok, but not great. I needed a stand in for game of thrones and it’s kind of like that.
My mom started giving me a nightly ‘hot toddy’ of warm milk with a bit of brandy in it, to get me to go to sleep. Of course, this is before they realized that alcoholism is genetic, hahaha.
Pretty soon I was coming to let her know I was ‘ready for my hot toddy’, & she realized maybe it wasn’t such a good idea. When the brandy bottle ran dry, that was the end of hot toddies…
Round three of the MzPriss Mood Adjustment Project of the morning (after Special Dark and Jun Chiyabari). I brewed this cup from my “oldest” bit of Golden Orchid – which doesn’t last long around here. It’s interesting to see the way it changes over time. The vanilla becomes more pronounced and opening the beautiful little jar I have it stored in releases an aroma of vanilla fudge. It is so very smooth and silky and lovely. This tea makes me very happy. Maybe one more cup of this and some Golden Fleece and I’ll be ready to face the world with some grace today.
You’re going to wish you could still bump your rating up when the new batch arrives ;-)
I can’t wait :D
I think this one can fix any “mood disorder” :-)
Especially when followed up with Golden Fleece! :) I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for the spring harvest of that stuff…can’t get here fast enough!
I’m having the Golden Fleece now. I’m waiting for my Verdant Spring shipment too. I have to say though – I have an absolutely PIGGISH amount of Golden Fleece – which suits me just fine.
@TeaFairy – yup – I’m happier already :)
This time last year I bought an ounce of it…sadly it pretty much went on un-touched for about 6 months because my palette wasn’t refined enough to do it justice :/
It’s actually crazy what your sense of taste can do in just one year when you spend every day refining it :)
So true, taste buds are like little puppies, they need proper training ;-)
I fell madly in love with it (much like the Golden Orchid and my beloved Special Dark) immediately and I hoarded it shamelessly. And yeah, I feel like I’m able to pick out more things now than I was when I started.
@TeaFairy – I WISH my puppies were as well trained as my tastebuds
Haha!
I bet puppy owners everywhere wish that! ;)
being a wallflower, enjoying eavesdropping…
I need a mood adjustment…
I need a bitchface mug… ;)
@Terri – isn’t that bitchface mug awesome???? I neeeeed it!
My attitude DID get better after all that awesome teaness yesterday.
I want a mug like that! :)
The ONLY reason I don’t already have it is that its for decorative use only. You can’t drink tea out of it :(
oh…in that case, never mind…lol
I have to put the song for Golden Orchid up front for the soundtrack to this review: Miss Etta. At Last: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ45Q7ZuTEs&feature=kp
In the beginning, there was the truly delicious North Winds blend. Mz Priss tasted the North Winds and found that it was good. On the second day, WPTC lofted it to the stratosphere with the addition of a simple vanilla bean. This is one of the most groovealicious blends of tea I have ever tasted. And I mean groovealicious in the George Clinton-One Nation Under A Groove way and not the 60’s hippie way.
Sticking my snoot into the bag is a delight. This is all yummycreamy vanilla cocoa malt. I want to bathe in it. With North Winds as the base it has all the same coca malt notes, but the alchemical addition of the vanilla smooths it out even more than it was already was. It is almost like a vanilla caramel taste – though I don’t really detect a load of caramel. There is a very slight astringency on the tip of my tongue with a faint background of tobacco in the best way.
More on this at: mizzprissy.wordpress.com
Flavors: Cocoa, Malt, Vanilla
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So I took a sip and all I could think is “this tastes like a tree”. That sounds weird but really it is pretty fitting. This tastes like evergreen trees smell: crisp and refreshing. It really is an interesting blend and one I would never picked up on my own so I am grateful for the teabox because once I got the chance to smell it, I was sucked in!
I looked, but this tea did not seem to be entered into Steepster database yet.
If it already is, I apologize.
I am very tired from staying up all night with a sick kitty.
She is currently at the Vet, getting some tests done.
I am pretty sure what they are going to come back with since this has been a reoccurring issue with her since she was young.
She is such a trooper and I hate seeing any of my animals in pain.
So, to soothe my nerves and boost my spirits and get some caffeine in my system, I am drinking this tea this morning.
There is something quite delicate and lovely about this tea from first sniff of the dry leaf.
It has a brisk, dry aroma.
Yet, when brewed I almost get a baked goods note, something warm, right out of the oven, like a fruit tart with honey.
It is also a lovely golden colored tea.
Taste is light and sweet.
Crisp, yet smooth, honeyed fruit notes, maybe a smidgen of toasted nuts.
It ends light and sweet on the tongue.
Quite nice.
This tea is quite good company to me while waiting by the phone for news about my fur-baby.
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I’m sorry to see that you have a sick cat. It is always terrible to see them not well, or even just ageing as one of ours is (17 and fading). I hope the vets can help.
Thanks, Roughage. Yes, aging kitties can be hard too.
This Vet has been so good to all my animals, I am sure they will come back with something to make her feel better:)
Yup. It’s decided. I am not a fan of smokey teas. I was hoping for graham cracker/marshmallow/chocolate goodness with maybe a HINT of smoke…
This is definitely less smokey than their “Campfire” blend, but still too much smoke for me.
If you like smokey tea, ask me for a swap…I’ll gladly pass it along.
smokey + maple syrup = good time.
Have you tried Della Terra’s S’Mores tea? It’s got the chocolate and marshmallows and not the smoke. Pretty sweet though, though the base is nothing fancy
Also the graham, it’s got that too
By tomorrow this will be available with a checkbox to opt out of the lapsang in the blend :)
Both Autumn Foxtrot and S’mores are now available as unsmoked blends :)
O_O BRENDEN! THAT is music to my ears. I just got my newest order in from you, but when it’s time to restock again, I will definitely be picking up a sample of the unsmoked version!
@whatshesaid…I’ll have to check that one out!
Sil if you want it, I will happily send it along. Let me know via PM if interested :) No charge…happy to share the wealth :)
Oh now a non smoky version sounds delish!
would love to do a little swap with you, if you’re game. I know you’re just getting in to things, so happy to send a few things your way as well. OR if you want to send that my way, i’m happy to pay it back in a future swap sometime too haha
Is there any chance you still have some of this to swap? I was going to place a WP order soon and am on the fence about adding this tea. (:
Wasn’t sure what I’d think of this, as it’s just spices and zero tea anything. Still, it’s exactly what I wanted today/tonight, so I brewed myself a cup. Oh, yum! Okay, so it’s missing the thickness of a black tea, which I’m sure would be quite lovely if added. Still, it’s a decent chai-like blend when I’m needing/wanting zero caffeine.
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And one more top-secret release for Steepster people only :)
About the Tea
Silver Moonlight White tea is a very unique autumn-picked white tea. It is minimally processed to preserve the purity of the leaf as well as a beautiful taste and aroma. First, the large leaves generally used to make pu’er are carefully picked and allowed to become lightly oxidized under the moonlight. The following day, they are brought into a shaded area and warm air is blown over the delicate leaves to dry them. Silver Moonlight has delicious sweet fruity notes generally found in white tea but also malty notes generally found in black tea. Notes of honeydew melon and raw eucalyptus honey take the stage as a velvety sweetness coats your mouth, similar to the fuzz on a peach. Light cinnamon spice and malt play background notes and the aftertaste is that of honey wheat bread with melted cinnamon butter! With a medium body and a strong, lingering aftertaste, this makes a great afternoon tea as well as a tea to sip while on hikes. This tea will develop a much deeper body over time, eventually tasting just like a black tea! Silver Moonlight is great iced, too!
Harvest
March 2013
This tea was dry-aged in Yunnan, China for one year
Notes
Honeydew Melon
Raw Eucalyptus Honey
Peaches
Hay
Cinnamon
Wheat
Butter
Honeysuckle
How to brew the perfect cup:
Steep 1 tablespoon of leaves in 8 ounces of boiling water for 3 minutes.
2nd infusion: 5 minutes
3rd infusion: 8 minutes
http://whisperingpinestea.com/silver-moonlight-white-tea.html
Oh, I will become a client of yours very shortly mister! Must check your shipping fee to Canada though (assuming you do ship to Canada?)
Sounds yummy! Ditto the above :)
Hey there! Yes, we do ship to Canada! Our rates are below :)
$0-$75: $12.50
$75+ : Free!
:)
Thank you so much, will start looking :-)
No worries! I’m following you now, so if you have any questions at all, please message me!
Awesome, thanks!
Well dadgummit – I would have added a little of this to my order if I had read this before
Hmm…another tea that has only been released to Steepster people so far… :D
About The Tea
Our Yunnan Silver Needle White Tea was harvested in early to mid-spring (2014) and carefully processed to preserve the purity of the leaf. With pure nearly-opened buds covered in down white hairs, this tea is as beautiful to look at as it is to taste! Yunnan Silver Needle opens with a velvety sweet body with base notes of honeysuckle and melon, complimented by light cinnamon and hay notes. The aftertaste is reminiscent of fresh-cut sweet basil leaves, and lingers on for minutes after the last sip. A fantastic silver needle!
Harvest
March 2014
Notes
Honeysuckle
Melon
Hay
Cinnamon
Fresh-cut basil leaves
How to brew the perfect cup:
Steep 1 tablespoon of leaves in 8 ounces of 190ºF water for 3 minutes.
2nd infusion: 5 minutes
3rd infusion: 8 minutes
After some testing, and thanks to Veronica for pointing it out, I’m changing the recommended steeping temp of this tea to 205ºF. Everyone with this tea should try it that way and let me know what you think :)
Oops, I already brew mine at a preset temp of 95 celsius which is 203F. I rarely prepare any tea at boiling except for certain blends or herbals. Plus I live in altitude and it seems like it takes forever for the water to come to a boil!!
This tea is pure marvel.
I just slipped this into our sample section for those of you that want to try before buying. To buy it by the ounce, though, you’ll have to wait until the 1st! :)
http://whisperingpinestea.com/samples.html
Having a cup now since I love it so much. Always hits the spot with that salted caramel note :D
Enjoy!
You guys would add that after I already ordered a sample pack xD Well whenever I put in a real order anyway I plan on ordering that…but still xD
Same here, Ost. I’m now considering a second sample pack… Hm…
Haha, Ost, well it just now arrived! :) Are you order #139?
You could just trust me that it’s awesome and wait… ;)
YOU DO SAMPLES? places order right now
Yay! This was the tea I was waiting for to make a full blown order. I just ordered a sample pack to try a few others before ordering as well.
Yay! This was the tea I was waiting for to make a full blown order. I just ordered a sample pack to try a few others before ordering as well.
I was surprised at the number of people who didn’t know that you offer samples when I posted about receiving them in the mail. You need to add them to your front page or something!
Aww booo one of the ones I want to try is sold out. I wait :)
That’s a good idea, Cameron! I’ll have to figure something out. Maybe make one of my banner images about samples. :)
Sorry this wasn’t in when you placed your sample order today, TeaTiff! Hope you enjoy your samples though! :D
Which tea are you looking at, Stephanie? I can get you an ETA for most of my out of stock teas :)
I want to try one with pine needles in it! :D
Heh, am I order #139? I don’t remember. xD Probably? I ordered two sample packs. The free shipping got me on that one…I love free shipping. xD
Stephanie, from what I could tell they don’t offer everything as a sample. There were some that I wanted to try that were in-stock but just weren’t on the sample list. I was assuming they were teas that they have limited stock or sell out of fast.
Ahhh don’t we all :) Well, let me tell you…I harvest the pine once a month and the stock is very limited. So on July 1st, the moment the newsletter goes out, probably around 10-12 ounces of The Sleeping Bear will be available. Once it’s gone, you’ll have to wait until August harvest to get another chance :)
Ost, yes, we all love free shipping I think! It’s free after $50 on regular orders in the states, after $75 in Canada.
And yes, Cameron is right, we only offer 10 samples and they are all based on availability. Many of our teas, we just don’t have enough inventory to offer samples.
I’ll remember to look for it the first of the month then…thanks!
I can definitely understand that. Luckily for me, most of the ones I’m interested in are fairly inexpensive. :D
No worries, Stephanie! :)
Cameron, I’m glad you like our prices! :)
Brendan is like the Rene Redzepi of the tea world :)
That is a HUGE compliment, Marzipan, and I plan to continue striving for excellence and createavity :D
Yay, let’s get some more Ailaoshan Love :-)
Ack it auto corrected your name wrong :(
Ahh no worries :) I must spend less time on here or I’ll end up spilling the beans on new secret blends. I’m terrible at keeping secrets as long as I plan to. Lol
AAAAHHHH I didn’t know about the samples! I just ordered some :-)
:) Yay! I’ll have that sent out tomorrow :)
This just decided me on the first tea of the morning. I love this one!
Mmmm I might have to have this one this morning too!
Just finished mine. Managed to not lick the inside of the cup when it was empty. I had a cup of coffee :O first but I NEEDED tea. This particular tea.
:) I just had a weird moment when I thought about this tea, I could smell it. Need to make this right now!
NEED more! :)
I may or may not be posting these before they are released for Steepster people to get first dibs…Who knows… ;)
About the Tea
Ailaoshan Black Tea is one of the most breathtaking teas I have had the chance to indulge in. This tea is grown at over 2000 meters above sea level and shrouded in warm mist nearly year-round. It is harvested from tea bushes that have been cultivated on the edge of one of the most diverse subtropical ecosystems in the world — The Ailao Mountains (Ailaoshan) Nature Preserve. This nature preserve is home to at least 550 plant species and 460 animal species, including the black gibbon and bengal tiger.
Harvested in mid-spring of each year, Ailaoshan Black Tea is carefully processed and carries a warm aroma of toasted cocoa and caramelized plum. At first taste, a range of fruit notes can be identified amongst the delicious cocoa and caramel undertones. The most noticible fruit note is that of caramelized plum, followed shortly by a mix of black currant and longan fruit. A savory quality is experienced at mid-sip as well as in the aftertaste, and salted caramel with a hint of roasted fruit lingers on past the last sip. This is a truly memorable cup of tea and will please any connoisseur of rare and extraordinary black teas!
Harvest
March 2014
Notes
Toasted Cocoa
Caramelized Plum
Black Currant
Longan Fruit
Salted Caramel
How to brew the perfect cup:
Steep 1/2 tablespoon of leaves in 8 ounces of boiling water for 3 minutes.
2nd infusion: 5 minutes
3rd infusion: 8 minutes
Flavors: Caramel, Cocoa, Plums
And this one too….
I’m trying REALLY hard to stop drinking this one!
I just ordered some. Send it SOON please and thank you (although you are GREAT about that) :)
Got your order! It’s being packaged right now and will ship tomorrow :) Thanks! I’m excited to hear what you think about these! :D
I’m actually looking way more forward to trying this one than I am the white one. I’m on the fence with whites. But the white one was oxidized in moonlight and malt and sweet, so I need to try that.
The white is ridiculously good. It’s so sweet and thick and just so perfectly delicious. It’s the kind of tea that is so good you just gulp it down :)
But the Ailaoshan black…I can’t begin to describe how much I love it. It was instantly my favorite black tea from the first sip. It’s so fruity and perfect. Also FANTASTIC iced!
This sounds great.
:)
I need this tea in my life.
Right?! :D
sooooooo WPTC – I just steeped up the sample of this. And um, yeah. Its very very nice. Cocoa and caramel, its lively but its not “brisk” which (to me) would not be a good thing. I’m way way glad I ordered some of this.
:D excited to see a full review! And the other teas you got as well!
I just added the others to my cupboard. Well the ones I got yesterday – not the ones that are still on their way. I think I underleafed this one just slightly but it was GOOD
Oh and I just added the Imperial Gold Bud to the list on here but I got a new mac and I can’t figure out to grab pics so you might want to add the picture to it.
:) Imperial Gold Bud is already up, under the name Imperial Gold Bud Dian Hong
Ahh, looks like I had forgotten to change “black tea” to “Dian Hong”. When you review that, make sure to review under the dian hong one please :)
ok. i just couldnt find it and i re-did it apparently. and i added a pic cause i figured out how to make right click work on my mac
Brenden sent me a sample of this tea…almost gone from his stock now…and I hope he gets more!!! This is one of the best black tea’s I’ve ever tasted!
I shared some with my teahouse assistant manager friend Joe.
Don’t under brew (Joe saw the timing and almost didn’t follow the instructions, thought it was too long).
When Brenden noted 3 minutes steep time it was for a good reason. This tea is multi-layered, deep, full and nuanced like fine wine.
Morphing…the flavor changes often as the tea slowlycools.
Milk chocolate, cocoa puffs cereal, butternut squash, dry papaya or mango. Sunshine…jam.
At first sip…“OH WOW”, from both Joe and I. Total surprise and delight.
Like I said…this tea is almost gone. I ordered some more for myself.
Hope there’s more to come in the future.
The way I purchase tea on a budget is this:
I have my inexpensive but very good quality (tasting) tea…and I do some home blending with dry herbs and spices.
Puerh is a bargan! Believe me, it’s possible to find a puerh you’ll like with a little help from someone who guides you.
Then, my more expensive tea’s are treats that I indulge in several times a week.
Yes, I treat myself…and delight in every sip!
BTW, if you go to Whispering Pines Website just to look around, check out the video on the back page of Brenden doing his slackline sport. He’s on YouTube also.
He just won a competition in Germany!!!
Don’t we have a bunch of creative genius’s here on Steepster!
Love you all…
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I agree! One of the best teas I have ever had!
OMG, look, a note from Bonnie!!! WE ALL MISS YOU!!!
(I have started replying to you, you’ll here from me very soon :- xxx )
(I meant “hear” lol)
Haha…hello!
That sounds delicious. Hi Bonnie, hope you are well! :)
so nice to see you back ! and with this tea rated 100 it sounds really like a fantastic return :)
i ordered this tea because of your wonderful review. it is amazing. Thank you!!!
Woot! Finally got my Whispering Pines order (darn borders…) So this of course is the first tea I tried. Dammit though, I oversteeped it while watching Person of Interest. Bah!
Regardless, this smells so strongly of chocolate out of the bag I looked around to see if I’d left some chocolate out accidentally. Nope, it’s from the tea! Amazing. Steeped (for 11 minutes, bah!) it’s still very chocolately with zero astringency, although I can still tell it would be much more delicate, light, yet full and rich had I done this justice. It smells amazing still even as it sits here, and I hope the scent floats out throughout the house.
Flavors: Chocolate
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I want to go back and watch Person of Interest from the beginning (I hate starting a series mid stream). Do you like it a lot?
Oh man, this sounds SO good.
Person of Interest is one of my favorite shows, however I am biased; the showrunner is the (lesser known) brother who co-wrote both Memento, and had a part with the production of Inception as well. I see it as a television version of that style of film, and then when they added a female lead that just happens to be one of my favorite actresses, I was overjoyed. It’s really solid writing, and they’ve thought through the very complex storyline five years through… it shows.
Hmmm maybe I should give it another shot lol I watched the first season and just found it too repetitive
Woohoo Person of Interest! Possibly my favorite show on television. LOVE Jonathan Nolan too, MissB! Killer writing… I love dramatic shows that still have lighthearted moments occasionally and lots of witty one-liners. And yes, the storyline is awesome and has never felt tired (side note: omg ends of seasons are so stressful!).
I personally love the “number-of-the-week” format (with larger storylines interwoven) but I suppose it’s not for everyone. :)
Hmm… I’m looking for a new series, I might have to check it out. I just recently finished Fringe and hate that it’s over! It was so hard to watch the final episode!
You know how when you were a kid and you were playing outside in the snow, and you never wanted to stop.
But, suddenly just as your fingers were starting to get cold and your snow clothes soggy, Your Mom magically knew and called you with the delightful phrase “Come inside now and get some cocoa!”
You would come in, cheeks all pink, fingers and toes tingling with cold, and watch as your Mother spooned that magical powder into your mug and set it in front of you, with that perfect final touch of one giant marshmallow bobbing on top?
Well, when you open the bag of this tea and stick your nose deep into the dry leaves, thats the smell you get.
Warm, chocolaty, malt powder goodness.
When you taste it,it goes away from that smell, oh, you still get some chocolate, but now its more rich and plumy and nutty.
Very smooth too.
I could see a non tea drinker being very intrigued by this tea, between the smell and the smooth and slightly sweet taste.
This tea, simply put, is delightful.
Another one hit straight out of the park, Whispering Pines Tea!
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Shared a pot of this with my Hubby yesterday.
This was another lovely sample that Brenden slipped in with my order.
Always a hit in this household.
Since LS is one of the only teas Hubby really enjoys, I usually save it to be drunk with him, on a slow Sunday morning.
Which is what we did yesterday!
Delicious, smoky yet sweet.
One of those teas that you wrap both hands around the mug and bury your face deep into the steam.
Its a like a hug in a tea cup.
Although, with this tea, its a little less like a hug from your Grandma and more like a hug from a big burly logger.
But, thats okay, because I am down with that.
Preparation
I’m ok with a hug from a big burly logger too! I really need to order from this company.
Also I’ve added this to my wishlist!
They usually give good hugs;)
I highly recommend Whispering Pines Tea Company, they have great tea and the customer service is awesome!
Yeah, logger hugs! Hubby’s best buddy is a gentle giant—my ear hits him about belt buckle level. It’s always like getting hugs from Santa Claus :)
Ha! Hugs from Santa! That sounds wonderful:)
Another great tea from Whispering Pines! This tea is the base for the Golden Orchid that I love so much, and while Golden Orchid is still the winner for me, North Winds is a close second.
The dark chocolate hits me first, but finishes with a lovely honey & chocolate aftertaste.
I am on my second steep, and it’s just as lovely as the first.
Yesterday I tried and reviewed Whispering Pines North Wind tea, which is the base of Golden Orchid, so I was very excited to see how they built on such a strong foundation. Golden Orchid is every bit as good as North Wind, and perhaps not better but simply a different tea to suit a different day. It just so happened that yesterday was cold and rainy, lending itself well to North Wind, and today is beautiful and sunny like Golden Orchid. Both are good days though! It’s very impressive how the vanilla added to Golden Orchid does not drown the delicious black tea of North Wind, but rather it adds dimension.
I plan on stocking both North Wind and Golden Orchid to my tea cupboard, some days that wonderful base may be called for and some days something a little extra. Either way these two blends are among the best I have tasted!
Brendan! BRENDAN! YOU MUST MAKE THIS TEA ALWAYS! Please never discontinue it! This tea is AMAZEBALLS. It is currently out of stock, so I HOPE (beg) Brendan to restock it!
I am going to make a bold statement. I think this might be the best tea non-dessert tea I have ever tried. I will add the disclaimer that I am still a Noob to the world of loose tea (I have only been drinking loose tea for two months) but in my quest to find a good breakfast tea, this is definitely the winner. Hands down.
This would, for sure, be a tea i took with me to a desert island.
I am on my second steep and it is just as flavorful as the first. The tasting note from Whispering Pines suggests that you could get up to 8 resteeps out of this. I love it so much, I might just try it. If I do I will come back and edit my note.
So happy to see you discovering straight teas and their wonderfulness :)
√ Back in stock
√ Never Discontinue Golden Orchid
√ Stop drinking my personal stock and save some for the people of Steepster
:)
Yay for it being back in stock! I just placed an order! Yum.
This was on my list to try and now it’s even more on my list to try!
And what, my dearest, did you get from TeaVivre?
(i might have placed a middle of the night Teavivre sale order myself..oops…)
And yo, little VD pot!!! Do you have yours yet sarsy? Any of your 100 clay gaiwan dedicated for it?
I am using one of my banko houhins as my vanilla teapot. I’ll snap a pic for you. :)
Oh, yes please!
TTF you might be in so much trouble.
MzPriss I love that you have a Vanilla Dreams yixing. YUMMY!
Lol, cheri, I’ve been in trouble pretty much all my life, so bring it :-)
I got some Bailin Gongfu (a LOT) because I <3 it and the yixing that is on sale and something else, then I went back to sleep