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Showing posts with label tea. Show all posts
Tea Sparrow is an online tea subscription and tea critiquing company that allows its customers to experience different top rated teas from around the world every month. On Sunday, they hosted their first tea tasting party at the Heritage Hall on Main Street. It was a pretty good turn out; lots of people came to drink tea and listen to the small info talks about tea.


We were given a scorecard and a little ceramic cup as we entered and were told to rate each tea based on smell, appearance and taste as we went through table to table. There were all sorts of teas - white, green, oolong, black, rooibos and herbal teas. 

This pretty tea is Strawberry-Champagne (Sencha green tea, carrot pieces, pineapple pieces, stawberries, cornflowers, sunflowers, natural flavour). Each table had two types of teas and bowls of the loose leaf that we examine and smell.

After looking and smelling the tea, it's time to taste.

Just in case you don't like the taste of the tea, each table also had a discard pail. 

White Rose - Fair trade certified organic white tea and organic rose.
I liked how on each table, there's a coloured banner corresponding to the type of tea on that table.

Passion Berry Jolt - black tea, marigolds, cornflowers, raspberry and passion fruit flavouring

Freedom Tea - green rooibos, red rooibos, lemon myrtle, lemon verbena, and lemongrass, with just a hint of vanilla

Santa's Secret - apple pieces, hibiscus, rose hip, cinnamon ceylon, pears, quince, essential oils, organic orange, cloves, vanilla

Organic Peppermint


Nut Crunch Rooibos - green honeybush, green rooibos, apple pieces, raisins, flavor, hazelnut pieces

We also had the option to purchase individual teas for $5 a bag.


There were also some pretty tea pot and cup sets for sale.

It was a pretty interesting event, especially if you like tea!

A Groupon-type site called Dealfind recently offered a deal for Afternoon Tea for 2 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver for only $36. Deals at the Fairmont are often very popular and always sell out quickly. I'm more of a coffee drinker than a tea drinker but I do love the occasional tea. I enjoyed the smells of it mostly. So when a friend asked me to join her and some other friends, I quickly agreed.

On Saturday, we met up at 2pm to have tea. Each of us received our own personal pot of tea and I tried one called Angel Falls Mist ("a wildly, exotic strawberry and lemon character...a pinch of sugar boosts the flavor profile...makes terrific herbal tea - hot or iced!"). It is mild and has a nice fruity taste that I liked and it smells really good. Tea comes with a double-deck tray of petit sandwiches, tasty pastries, house-made scones and fresh strawberries with Devonshire cream. I liked the savory treats more than the scones and the sweet tarts and cakes. We each get two scones and we all agreed it was too much! It was a very filling afternoon snack and I had a nice time chatting and catching up with my friends.