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muninnhuginnDragonfly tea's Dragonfly Organic Swirling Mist White Tea is the find of the year. Oddly, maybe. Generally, the ravens prefer Kenyan over Assam because it brews deeper orange and stronger, the crucial point. But the colour is more important if you don't add milk (or sugar).
We normally stick almost entirely to strong brewing organic tea bags from Clipper Teas (or for a real bounce, think very, strong espresso, their Bright Penny Tea). These we drink with no milk and hence no sugar. Tea with no milk just goes syrupy when you add sugar. Bright Penny sometimes gets bitter enough a splash of milk is required. However, we drink our Twinings' Chai (cheating we know) with milk and sugar to bring out the spice. Green tea normally passes us by, though we've made sorbet from it (also from Earl Grey, which we otherwise loathe (seemed to be the default tea when we were a student, so it was unacceptably posh--and tasted rotten too)). But the name and the rather wonderful, simple design of the dragonfly packaging had us intrigued. So we bought it. It's good. No bitterness, which usually puts us off. Tastes of more than dishwater (whether this is true on the third brewing is another matter--economical too, isn't it?). No metallic tang. Pleasant scent. As to the detox. and the balancing of the immune system, well who knows?
It was worth getting a cup and saucer out to drink this. It's not a slurp from a mug experience. We've had to set a whole new directory for tea-related bookmarks too.
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Date: 2003-02-27 04:45 pm (UTC)And thank you for the lovely review; perhaps I'll try one of these "white" teas, after all.
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Date: 2003-02-28 01:57 am (UTC)All the tea companies' web sites were rather fine, but I suppose they're catering for reasonably upmarket tastes--no PG Tips chimps (oops! possibly an excessively Anglocentric reference) and suchlike. It was the packaging that caught my eye when browsing along the tea shelves in Waitrose. So cool design does work.
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Date: 2003-03-01 01:24 pm (UTC)Haven't even tried that brand of tea before, for that matter, though I was intrigued by the pyramidal bags. A nice gimmick.
That brookebond.co.uk is quite the busy site, isn't it? Coleman mustard, PG Tips and several other teas, the infamous Pot Noodle (the which I also have never encountered). But it's busy in more ways than one - not a masterpiece of clever design.
The Dragonfly packaging is very much the other extreme. Quiet, refined, soothingly simple ... very upscale, I'm sure. (I'll bet I don't want to know the price per box!) A nice bit of design.
And yes, it really does matter.
You know the saying, never judge a book by its cover? One of my high-school pals went on to work in, manage, and eventually own a series of book shops. She was very successful in her buying - so good at picking which books would actually sell, she was approached by several of the publishers, who tried to recruit her. She made a lucrative career, in other words, of judging books by their covers.
Not quite the same thing, I know, but worth a giggle!
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Date: 2003-03-02 04:08 pm (UTC)PG Tips are almost drinkable, though the pyramids seemed to make little difference and seemed to necessitate bigger boxes.
As owners of art work that's been used as the cover of either books or magazines, obviously packaging matters to us.
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Date: 2003-03-09 01:18 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-03-09 01:21 pm (UTC)Those others sound good, too.