We're having fun getting ready for the holidays here - decorating, baking cookies, planning surprises for each other. I just spent the morning helping the kids make Mexican sugar cookies (sugar cookies with anise seed and orange juice). Or, rather, we spent about 40 minutes making cookies and I spent 2 hours cleaning up. :)
Before I get to the tea, I wanted to share some info I've been receiving. I'm sure no one here objects to finding a sale now and then and many tea companies are offering special holiday deals. Here are a few I've seen lately:
* Adagio Tea has free gift wrapping and free shipping on many of their items.
* Den's Tea is offering 10% off on their Holiday Sale page if you use coupon code: HTG0802. The offer ends Dec. 19. They also have other items currently available for 40% off.
* Harney & Sons is having a 10% off sale on orders over $25. You can get free shipping on these orders too. Use code: Tea10Tea until Dec. 13.
* Mark T. Wendell has developed a new "Monthly Tea Tour." You can get a 6 month or 12 month subscription. The recipient will be sent a 4 ounce tin each month with detailed information about the Tea of the Month.
* Rishi Tea is offering a series of one day only sales from now until the holidays. Check their website for the latest deal. (Today was 50% off a glass teapot.)
* Starbucks is offering 20% off orders through Dec. 15.
I also wanted to mention that my next post will be a review of a newly published fiction book called "High Tea" by Sandra Harper. Stay tuned.
Today's tea review is a sample I received from CK, a work colleague of my husband's. (He requested that I come up with a more interesting way to refer to him, but I didn't come up with one yet. I rejected his suggestion of calling him my husband's "special friend.")
Back to the tea - this Ceylon Silver Tips is from Essencha. I presume this is Essencha Tea House & Fine Teas in Cincinnati. CK is a huge white tea fanatic and is trying to draw me into the fold. So far he's sent along this tea, a Poobong White, and a white pu-erh. I was intrigued by a white tea from Sri Lanka as most white teas I've had are from the Fujian Province in China.The leaves of this Ceylon Silver Tips are long, silvery, and needle-shaped. The scent is light and fresh.
I brewed 2 tsp of this tea for 4 minutes at 180 degrees, resulting in a pale colored brew. The scent was sweet, like honey, and crisp, like apples and pears. The tea had much deeper notes than I had expected. Honey continued to come to mind. I kept envisioning that this tea had a viscosity - slightly thick and slow flowing. There was a very long lasting aftertaste. I felt an ethereal, energizing quality with this tea.
This tea can withstand multiple infusions.
Tea: Ceylon Silver Tips
Source: Essencha
Type: White tea, Sri Lanka
Brewing details: 2 tsp for 4 minutes. Water at about 180 degrees.
Comment: An excellent white tea. It still isn't going to convince me to love white tea more than oolong, but it is a very good offering.
Taken from http://teapages.blogspot.com/
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