orange – Here's the Tea

Hello hello, we have been inactive far too long! So we’re back with a vengeance and a lot of teas. Today, you’re stuck with a Geeves coming off an anxiety high, which includes subpar photography.

Today’s tea: Purple Summer Fling! This tea comes to us courtesy of my Seattle trip, from Steepologie teas. I have to be honest, this is one of the nicest stores I’ve ever been in. The walls are lined with shelves of canisters, equipped with tiny bottles to sniff the tea! When you find your tea, bring the canister to the counter and they’ll pack it out for you. They also offer individual cups of any tea! I was the only person in the store, along with one employee, so I felt like the service was good, although she didn’t know very much about the tea I chose, which is understandable because a) she was new, b) there’s like 500 teas, and c) I know a lot more about tea than many people. A word of caution: I have heard that online orders don’t always go well, and customer service RE: shipping is not great. But mostly people like the business, so here we go!

Geeves’ Tasting Notes:

Maggie has never had this tea. So these are me, purely on my own here (ahhhhhhh)
8/10
This tea is a fruity purple tea. Purple tea is from Kenya, is a new thing, and more info can be found on our technical site, teastory.home.blog.
So I came into this thinking it was gonna be like a vibrant purple, but it was a lowkey light pink. Which, for a leaf that looks like black tea, is cool! But it is pink, so the farmers need to learn colors.
My qualms about this tea is the ingerdiants: apple, pineapple, rosehips, blueberries, cranberries, orange peel, strawberry slices, elderberry, caledula, lemon myrtle, pina colada extract. It’s A LOT of stuff. So much stuff, I can’t even get individual flavors.

Purple Summer Fling

And actually, I fully believed I was getting a strong apricot flavor. There’s not even any apricot! On second consideration, it tastes like canned fruit cocktail in tea. Which I personally would be very interested in having…
Anyway, since I gave up drinks with sugar for Lent, this is the sweetest thing I’ve tasted in a while. The tea does give it a little of a sour/bitter note, but not in a bad way. Although it could just be fruit. (I swear to god, the bag is like 50/50, tea and fruit)
It’s $16 per 2oz, so that’s steep (because it’s steepologie) but whatever. I’m cool with it, it was a noveltea.
In all, it tasted more like a tisane than a tea. But you know who loves tisanes? THIS GIRL. So, I liked it quite a lot.

Here is your link, if you should be interested.

Thanks for joining us!

XO, Geeves (Maggie currently is singing in a concert, whoo!)

Prequel: I was driving my sister to a party. We were early, so we stopped at the mall, and there was a tea shop that had just opened. It was Spice and Tea Exchange. the prices looked fair, not crazy cheap. So I grabbed this tea, because it didn’t look like anything I had had before. Later that night, we though maggie had died, and I would be running this blog alone. We found she was not dead, just on a very long date. So we steeped it up, and loved it.

The company is here

and you can find this tea at $6.28 per ounce.

Geeves’ Notes

10/10
I love it, I would die for it
Its smokey, its sweet, it has a hint of spice.
It is everything I could want in a tea.
Also it tastes way better than it smells.

Maggie’s Notes

So I was gonna to rate this a 8.89/10 but Geeves said that was too much math and to #Not
So I Rounded up to a 9/10 sadly compromising my judging capabilities, Sad my dudes.
Buy anyway heres the tea, So I really really, Like REALLY enjoyed this blend.
It was smokey and had just the hint of cinnamon, and orange to it.
Its actually very similar to one of my favorite teas, lapsang souchong, so it definitely got into my good graces
Now some of you might be asking, “But Maggie Dearest Why Does this amazing smokey spice tea not a 10/10 if you love it so much” and I would respond
- Why thank you so much for asking. Its very similar to a Lapsang Souchong. So much so that at first I though Geeves had just added a tad bit of cinnamon to a cup of it. And while I love it, I wish there was a little bit more to differentiate it from Lapsang.
Over all though its not that big of a point, because I still loved it. Hence the rounded up 9/10

TL:DR

9.5/10
A lovely blend. A perfect cup for those who need a Smokey Drink in their lives

Much love to all you readers. May your tea never burn your mouth, and always be the right strength!

– -Maggie and Geeves

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