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drank Almond-Orange Swirl by Tealux
284 tasting notes

Oh look, a sample from TheTeaFairy (who probably didn’t know, when she picked her name, that it will be really hard for people to mention her properly since they have to capitalize three letters in what the iPad recognizes as one word. That’s like having to write PaRtY!)

Just kidding, fairy, you know you’re special.

Anyway, this tea was kinda not my thing. I trusted the steeping instructions written on the sample label although I rarely steep a green for 3 minutes and rarely use 185F. I am getting mostly orange, not at all almond although the orange is not in your face so there’s something muting it. Also,the tea is lightly bitter. Not sure if a two minute steep would have fixed that or not. I used the whole sample in one shot figuring I won’t want to drag 1 tsp around so I went for broke: 2 perfect scoops in the 16-oz DAVIDs steeper they went. Did not resteep (yet).

Can be enjoyed as is but to cut the bitterness I added 1 tsp of honey.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec
Sil

paaaaaaaaRTY!

TheTeaFairy

WeLL, I JusT ThINk iT’s kINd oF fUN tO WriTE ThiS WaY…sIL, YoU sEEm To SHarE mY poiNT oF VieW???

Nxtdoor

You are not doing this on an iPad I bet. It’s hard!

Bonnie

TeaFairy is indeed special!

TheTeaFairy

iPad is all I use these days, just so you know missy! Lol.

Aww, Bonnie, right back at you :-)

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Sil

paaaaaaaaRTY!

TheTeaFairy

WeLL, I JusT ThINk iT’s kINd oF fUN tO WriTE ThiS WaY…sIL, YoU sEEm To SHarE mY poiNT oF VieW???

Nxtdoor

You are not doing this on an iPad I bet. It’s hard!

Bonnie

TeaFairy is indeed special!

TheTeaFairy

iPad is all I use these days, just so you know missy! Lol.

Aww, Bonnie, right back at you :-)

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I started drinking loose leaf tea in the spring of 2013 (why do we feel compelled to mark the date of tea drinking somewhat like addicts counting their sobriety days?)

Never been much into tea before. Growing up in Romania, tea was something mom made for you when you were sick. As an adult, my hot beverage of choice has been coffee, both flavoured and regular. I’ve recently stumbled upon Teavana and DAVIDs TEA and quickly got addicted to the latter. Then came steepster and all else followed.

Formerly a mathematician and insurance adjuster, I gave up the corporate world and am now a professional chef. I drink wine and sometimes cheat on it with tea.

I lean heavily towards flavoured black teas. I’ve started to crave the occasional straight oolong and green but so far unflavoured black teas leave me unimpressed.

I’m learning so I drink them all. Am even introducing myself to pu’erh. So far I can do fine with the sheng cause frankly, they don’t taste like pu’erh to me. The shou is another story.

Note*: The virtual cupboard does NOT contain any of the samples I hold since most of them are one-cup quantity.

Note**: My partner, our home improvements, gadgets, mortgage, travel, wine and food have budget priority over tea.

Location

Toronto-ish, Canada

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