A very good smelling order, I might add. It was all nicely packed in boxes and cute little tins (I bought mostly samples, and at $2 a piece, that is so cheap) and for the two I decided to splurge on (pomegranate and lemon at $6/each) nice UV inhibited containers.
Since this was my first order, I decided to get one of their IngenuiTEA teapots, which is really an infuser. You put the loose tea inside of it, fill it up with water, let it steep, and then put it on top of your teacup. Then it drains into your teacup at a rate too fast for my camera to catch (I forgot I had turned it off, in truth.)
It makes just enough tea for me to fill up the rest of my cup with cold water, since I can't drink it that hot. Obviously my cup holds more than 16oz, which is what the IngenuiTEA holds.I tried the Pomegranate tea, and I hate to say this (well, not really) but it really blows Harney and Sons' Black Currant Tea out of the water in smoothness of taste and flavor. It's very, very smooth. I've never been one to call something 'full-bodied', but this has a very full body, if that makes any sense at all. I imagine it will make a great iced tea as well.
If the rest of what I bought is as good, then I now have a new favorite tea site. I did really pick and choose; I did get a lot of flavored teas, because they just sounded so good. But I got some other ones as well. And I will be trying them for weeks, at least.
(The nice thing is that if you buy $50 worth of stuff, you get free shipping. And it's fast shipping, too. Two days! And I ordered at 9pm on March 7th! Impressive! Also, you get points as you order, and when you have $100 points, you get a $10 gift certificate. Which is nice, too, especially since the samples are so cheap.)
So I have a lot of tea to try. :)
Update on the Rice Wine:
It's starting to smell very interesting now. It's still bubbling, too, so that's good. And I realized today that I--totally unintentionally--will have finished wine on St. Patrick's Day. Maybe I'll have to have a toast.
2 comments:
Tea!!!! :)
There's some good tea, too. Some tea I don't like too, but I had to try it, and I'm not out all that much money.
I will have to figure out if there's a trade thingy going on, though; I don't want to just toss what I don't like.
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