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Adagio Teas II

teapot, cup, and cannister

Remember my Self-Serving Tea Post? These goodies came in the mail last week: a 16 ounce ingenious teapot and a cannister of citron green tea. Now, having tried their products, I can happily recommend Adagio Teas.

Adagio tea labelThis
little teapot is excellent. It’s light, easy to use and easy to clean
(dishwasher safe.) It’s kind of trippy, actually — you just put in the
tea; pour in almost- at- the- boil water; set it on top of the cup of
your choice; and it opens and slips from the pot to the cup. Instructions* for the specific tea are right on cannister label for novices like
me.

And the tea is very nice. I don’t have a connoisseur vocabulary — this tea tastes soft to me. Kind of full and soft.

I like it.

ADDED: Go see Selva‘s Tea Leaves photoset.

* How much tea; best water temperature; how long to brew it.

4 responses to “Adagio Teas II”

  1. yukino Avatar
    yukino

    Yay!
    I kind of wish I’d gotten some of the citron, it sounds absolutely delicious! Glad you’re enjoying it. 🙂

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  2. yukino Avatar
    yukino

    Oh, and it must be working — Adagio is now on the first page of search results for “tea.”

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  3. Alcuin Bramerton Avatar
    Alcuin Bramerton

    On the subject of a connoisseur vocabulary, a traditional Norfolk koan comes to mind:
    What is a blog?
    A blog is a voluntary extension
    Of the conscious self
    Into the planetary domain
    Of awareness.
    A blog is a single neurone’s
    Singular contribution
    To all that is
    In the nervous system
    Of the planetary mind’s
    Human intellection department.
    Golly.
    Two things
    Are becoming apparent,
    Of course.
    First, blogs and dreams
    Are beginning to merge
    In consciousness.
    What is the difference
    Between a blog and a dream,
    After all?
    And who cares?
    And second, the planetary Blogos
    On Earth
    Is beginning to interlink
    Functionally
    With the much larger interplanetary,
    Intergalactic
    And inter-dimensional
    Levels of being which,
    Through a nexus of data links,
    Keep a benevolent eye
    On each other
    For the greater good
    And enlightenment of all.
    Crumbs.
    But what of words?
    With regard to the emerging
    Vocabulary of the weblog world,
    The semantics
    Of cyberspace,
    Perhaps it is the case that
    Cosmos and Blogos
    Interpenetrate spiritually,
    Ecosphere and Blogosphere
    Interpenetrate metaphorically,
    And Ecosystem and Blogosystem
    Interpenetrate experientially.
    Blogic, perhaps, is Biotic
    Rather than Abiotic.
    Or might it be Devic?
    The philologist behind you
    In the fish shop
    Knows that the word “devic”
    Comes from the Sanskrit “deva”
    Meaning “shining one”.
    He also knows that Sanskrit
    Has a significance beyond
    The sub-conscious
    Of the sub-continent.
    But all this could be a lot of tosh.
    Tosh is the pabulum of toshers.
    But not all toshers are politicians
    And yesterday’s self-serving saviours.
    Some toshers write blogs.
    And some bloggers write tosh.
    What is a blog, actually?
    And which tosh is veridical?
    More may be encountered:
    http://alcuinbramerton.blogspot.com/2004/11/traditional-norfolk-koans.html

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  4. Winry Avatar
    Winry

    This place seems to be offering the same type of link program, may want to put them up also. We all know free = good.
    http://www.teanobi.com/link4tea.html

    Reply

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