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I was sent a couple of Dorset Tea Sunshine Blend tea bags in the post by my good friend Jessica, because she thought I might like them. People sending me tea is an absolutely marvellous idea, and one that I would very much like to encourage. If you would like to send me some tea, or, indeed, if you would like me to send you some, please feel free to drop me a line at em@teafancier.com.
Dorset Tea, as you have probably already guessed, is a tea company based in Dorset. It seems appropriate for me to be drinking it today as I am currently on my holidays, albeit in a different sunshiny coastal English county.
This is a tough tea to review. It’s a really lovely cup of tea and I thoroughly enjoyed drinking it but there’s a reason I usually go for weird-arse tea blends containing pomegranates and goji berries and whatnot. Because really, after one has finished a cup of proper English tea and made that appreciative “ahh!” noise, what more is there to say? This is definitely a good quality tea, a notch above PG Tips or generic supermarket brands. It consists of Kenyan, Rwandan and Assam teas and has a pleasing golden colour, which is presumably intentionally in keeping with this teamonger’s sunshine motif.
I recommend drinking this tea in the sunshine, in the back garden of a holiday cottage, surrounded by fields of sheep, chickens, and alpacas because that’s how I did it.
Today’s featured book is Cath Kidston’s The Little Book of Health & Happiness, plucked from the bookshelves of my holiday cottage because I thought it would look pretty. It is, it turns out, full of absolute asinine rubbish like “Turn that frown upside down” (yes, they do use that exact phrase) and advising you that apples make a healthier snack choice than chocolate.
