Many, many months ago (I’m ashamed to count how many) my friend Ana brought me a few bags of Tea-Historic tea that she had picked up at a local festival. I pulled them out for sampling in the next few weeks and went to the website to do more research and learned that Tea-Historic is… Continue reading Drink Me: Tea-Historic, Cretaceous Cinnamon
When I placed my last order with Tea Embassy, I decided to order some unflavored black tea to review. I settled for the Capital Blend. From the website, the Capital Blend is a blend of Assam, Kenyan and Ceylon teas. They consider it a Scottish Breakfast Blend. Capital Blend is available in 1oz increments for… Continue reading Drink Me: Tea Embassy, Capital Blend
This past week I became smitten with a gorgeous sweater called Assam. It turns out it is the newest release from Tabetha Hedrick and is part of the new Sweet Georgia collection of patterns called High Tea. The full collection which includes an additional sweater, a shawl, and a hat (for a total for 4… Continue reading Knittea: High Tea Collection
A few weeks ago I posted about a beautiful necklace that I wanted to purchase from Churchmouse Yarn & Teas. As long as I was placing an order I had to try some of their tea. I ordered a package of Blend No. 512, Churchmouse Winter. Per the site, Winter is a blend of Assam,… Continue reading Drink Me: Churchmouse Yarn & Teas, No. 512 Winter
The third tea from Tea Emporium that I was intrigued enough to order was Royal Benghal Tiger. From the website this is a blend of Ceylon and Assam teas with mango, cinnamon and passionfruit. It is available in a variety of sizes: 50g for $5.25, 100g for $$10.50 and 250g for $23.63. When I first opened the… Continue reading Drink Me: Tea Emporium, Royal Benghal Tiger
Readers and friends often ask if I only drink flavored teas since that seems to be so much of what I review here. The simple answer is that the flavored teas are fun to try, but there’s also nothing like a strong cup of black tea. Today I’m sipping Irish Breakfast tea from Harney &… Continue reading Drink Me: Harney & Sons, Irish Breakfast
I just received the new Republic of Tea catalog and I was delighted to find more Downton Abby inspired teas are now available. The Upstairs Collection includes: Lady Cora’s Evening Tea: Lemon balm, linden flower, orange blossoms, chamomile, lavender flower, skullcap, passion flower and valerian root Grantham Breakfast Tea: Organic Assam Black Tea If you’re… Continue reading A Very Downton Par-tea
One of my favorite things about starting this blog has been finding out which of my friends are interested in tea and getting a few of them more interested in tea. This has led to some awesome tea exchanges and I’ve gotten to try so many new ones through them! This past weekend my friend… Continue reading Drink Me: Adagio Teas, Eleven
Several weeks ago a friend asked me if I had any recommendations for a good Assam tea. The fact was I had no idea where to start. So when I placed an order from Mighty Leaf, I decided to try their Organic Assam Estate. From the website the Organic Assam Estate is “black tea from the… Continue reading Drink Me: Mightly Leaf, Organic Assam Estate
I only recently learned that as part of 2013’s Black Friday celebrations World Market had a whole Downton Abbey themed tea party event. I can’t believe I missed it! Perhaps my favorite part were the beautiful mugs they gave away as part of the Black Friday promotions. They don’t have any more, so you’ll have… Continue reading A very Downton Tea Party
