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Mastress Alita drank Yunnan Rose Flowers and Big Snow Mountain Black Tea Dragon Ball by Yunnan Sourcing

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Happy Hug a Musican Day! Today the prompt is to do a tea/musician pairing.

I know it’s crazy, but I actually don’t listen to music often. Not that I don’t like it, but when you’ve had constant migraine headaches for around two decades, you kind of adapt to having quiet spaces. I’m coming off a COVID-booster triggered migraine that just lasted me two days, so I’m not particularly in the mood to put on any music right now, either.

But I am a fan of Symphonic Metal, and picked this tea because I felt the robust Yunnan black and the sweet and delicate floral rose sort of represents that juxtaposition of the metal instruments and the classical instruments coming together. Even the rose itself has a sort of duality to its imagery of being beautiful, but also covered in thorns. It just seemed right for a musical genre that is a mashup of older and newer musical styles. (My favorite group? Within Temptation, but I’m a fan of Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, and many, many others!)

This dragon ball was a (now very long-ago) gift from Derk; thank you Derk! I steeped the whole dragon ball in 500ml 205F water, let it steep for 3-4 minutes (using a chopstick to help separate up the ball about halfway through), and then strained into the cute little black cat teapot my mother gave me as a housewarming gift.

The steeped tea smells glorious, of honeyed cream and roses. On the sip, I’m getting warm cinnamon bread slathered in honey, and a strong, sweet floral rose that is lacking both the “peppery” note I often get from rose and also any “perfumy” qualities. The tea is silky smooth, but a touch drying after the sip. Some sips I get just the slightest hint of a citrusy note, which is equally smooth and pleasant with the other flavors, and a non-descript fruitiness left on my tongue after the sip, which I can only describe as “sort of grape, sort of cherry, not really either.”

I haven’t had a rose black tea in a while as I continue to make strides on my “all-sipdowns-no-new-orders” mandate, and am finding that sweet floral/Chinese black combo is something that I’ve missed dearly, and is really hitting the spot!

Thanks again, Derk!

Flavors: Bread, Cherry, Cinnamon, Citrus, Drying, Floral, Fruity, Grapes, Honey, Rose, Smooth, Sweet

Preparation

205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 8 g 17 OZ / 500 ML

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derk
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You’re very welcome.

Evol Ving Ness
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Haha, all sipdowns, no new orders. sad laugh

AJRimmer
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I also almost never listen to music. If I’m going to listen to something, I have too many podcasts I’m behind on to have time for music.

Crowkettle
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I wanted to find a tea that I could dedicate to a metal band today but apparently I drank those up last month – nothing good like a “rose mountain dragon ball” tea (that is so perfect) XD

tea-sipper
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I listen to too much music to have time for podcasts, AJRimmer. :D

Mastress Alita
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I tend to put on YouTube videos that are easy to just “listen” to where I don’t have to actively pay attention to the “video” in them, and then color or knit at the same time, heh.

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