Adventaggedon Day 22: Tea 1/8
Gongfu!
I think this is one of my favourites teas from all the advents overall! I’ve been sitting on this cool sage infused cheddar with this green marbling for a few weeks now waiting to do a tea and cheese pairing and the perfect tea for the pairing just hasn’t shown up yet. I realized today that I very well may not get a chance to find something better to go with it in these last few days of advents so I just went for it…
I’m glad I did because it was a wickedly delicious tea and actually a pretty unique pairing! The tea itself is so sweet with notes of rich golden honey, freshly baked and slightly toasted French bread, jammy red fruits, cocoa, malt, and candied citrus peels. Would have been completely excellent on its own, but also worked quite well with the cheese. It was creamy and a little sharp but mostly what stands out is the distinct note of sage (which, well, duh) which helped temper a bit of the sweetness and complimented the very dominant honey notes.
So much deliciousness all wrapped up into one tea session!
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyILXTpssU4&ab_channel=EarlyEyes
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oooh… I’m a massive cheese fanatic. Now you have me wanting to start pairing teas and cheeses. I just had a great wine-soaked goat cheese earlier tonight. Last night I tried Dubliner for the first time. My goal is to try every type of cheese I can get my hands on. So far the only one I hated was the apricot-wensleydale. That one got thrown out. But the rest I have either liked or loved.
Do you have any other good suggestions for tea/cheese parings? I’d love to hear them!
Some of my favourites have been very creamy chevre/goat cheese paired with Gyokuro, fresh ricotta and honey with a more refreshing/vegetal leaning Bai Mu Dan, and also blue cheese and an aggressively smoked Lapsang! Baked brie with a bit of jam is also good with more astringent Darjeelings (especially those 2nd flush with some bite to them), and very sharp cheddar tends to go well with Chinese blacks like Keemun.
Also, what I was initially hoping would show up in my advents to pair with this cheese was a good Sun Moon Lake with some nice wintergreen notes.
WOW for these cheese & tea pairings.
oooh… I’m a massive cheese fanatic. Now you have me wanting to start pairing teas and cheeses. I just had a great wine-soaked goat cheese earlier tonight. Last night I tried Dubliner for the first time. My goal is to try every type of cheese I can get my hands on. So far the only one I hated was the apricot-wensleydale. That one got thrown out. But the rest I have either liked or loved.
Do you have any other good suggestions for tea/cheese parings? I’d love to hear them!
Some of my favourites have been very creamy chevre/goat cheese paired with Gyokuro, fresh ricotta and honey with a more refreshing/vegetal leaning Bai Mu Dan, and also blue cheese and an aggressively smoked Lapsang! Baked brie with a bit of jam is also good with more astringent Darjeelings (especially those 2nd flush with some bite to them), and very sharp cheddar tends to go well with Chinese blacks like Keemun.
Also, what I was initially hoping would show up in my advents to pair with this cheese was a good Sun Moon Lake with some nice wintergreen notes.
WOW for these cheese & tea pairings.