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I love the fact that this one just tastes so complex on so many levels. It’s just the best of blacks. :D

I know! It’s crazy! I have to try Irish again sometime seeing as I ruined it with my milk last time.

Dude I with you Ricky! I think tea drinkers forget to love nuances… let’s be the change we wanna see ;-)

Haha, I should have some of this today =] It certainly has been a while.

Haha, it seems you love gunpowder, what happened to black tea? =P

Hahaha! I only really have been drinking black because it’s the only thing I’m familiar with. I really haven’t tasted many greens/whites/etc., so they might be my favorites and I don’t know it yet! I do love my blacks, though!

Muscat is a type of grape usually used for making wine. I believe it’s the slightly astringent, wine-like flavour they’re referring to when they call it muscatel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscat_(grape_and_wine)

I think the pu-erh in GM’s Pu-erh Chai is a minor player in the tea, after the black tea and spices. When I have it, it seems to add a lovely muskiness (almost a cheesiness) to the tea. It isn’t a full-on take-no-prisoners pu-erh taste on its own. One of the things I like about it is that it works in partnership with the other flavors so well that it doesn’t dominate the mix.

Hrm. That IS strange. Pu-erh has been the only tea that has across the board been able to stand up to many, many steepings for me. Could be that I haven’t tried a ton. I think that Carolyn sent me some of this and I haven’t tried it yet. Might need to get around to it this week.