A Tale of Two Teas – Thornfield Hall
A Tale of Two Teas was a wonderful literary-inspired teamonger whose teas I enthusiastically reviewed back in 2021. They disappeared a while back, but excitingly they’ve made a reappearance, having undergone a Doctor Who-style regeneration and adopted the new name of Leodrune Shoppe.
(Leondrune means “Wise Woman of the People”. It’s a marvellous word and one that I now intend to shoehorn into everyday conversation.)
Leodrune Shoppe launches on the 19th of March, and right now, there’s the chance to buy the last remaining teas from A Tale of Two Teas before the brand’s complete transfiguration is complete. This seemed like an excellent opportunity to break out my Tale of Two Teas Thornfield Hall, which has been skulking around the tea stash for a while now.
Enthusiastic as I was about previous Tale of Two Teas teas, including Mr Darcy (a chocolatey masterpiece) and Glass Slipper (an elevated Earl Grey), I hadn’t got around to trying Thornfield Hall. This is because it’s a berry-based non-tea tea, and – quite frankly – I can’t really be doing with red fruity tisanes these days.
As regular readers will know, I am not a fan of fruit ‘teas’. Although credit where it’s due, A Tale of Two Teas do do this sort of thing better than most. (Their rhubarb-and-custard-y Artful Dodger has the honour of being the highest-scoring tisane thus far on my blog.)
This is no wishy-washy cup of delicately scented hot water. Thornfield Hall is packed full of elderberries, sultanas and blackcurrants, which plump up beautifully during the steeping process. After I’d poured the tea, my teapot looked like someone had plonked a couple of teaspoons of Christmas Pudding into it. It’s a dark, fruity concoction the colour of red wine that probably counts as one of your five-a-day.
It’s not tea, obviously. It’s more like posh, artisanal Ribena. But as posh, artisanal Ribenas go, it’s top-notch.
A Tale of Two Teas is dead. Long live Leodrune Shoppe! The new venture isn’t a teamongers as such, it is – according to Chief Leodrune, Luna – a space to share stories and magickal items, but it sounds like tea blends will still have a place in the new shop. I do hope so. Original, creative and quirky tea blends make the world a better place.
Today’s featured book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Thornfield Hall is the literary residence of the book’s problematic love interest, Mr Rochester.
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