Serendipity no more

I learned some very sad news from the local artisan grocery shop where I go to buy my lose leaf tea: Serendipity Infusions, one of my favourite tea companies in this country, has now gone under. The shop owner was very sad, but not nearly as much as I was. Like I told her: "It is both tragic and worrying when a tea company goes bankrupt in England!" I think this deserves to be a great unknown line, as sad as the circumstances to say it were. And was already unhappy about Jollybrew suddenly going under. Now I must find another tea company to buy quality (qualitea?) brews.

Serendipi-Tea

During her last visit to our place two days ago, looking at the amount and range of various teas I had, Blonde Tickler said that I was tea obsessed. She may be right. I am not a connoisseur, but tea is my favourite non alcoholic drink and I like trying new things. Having read good things about green tea and its health benefits, I bought a pack of China Jasmine Green Tea from Serendipity Infusions. It was good, but not as much as their black tea from Vietnam I tried recently and which is now the favourite I have at home. I guess green tea is an acquired taste that I need to develop. So I will drink more of it. On a side note, I think the company should really have called themselves Serendipitea.

Tea from Vietnam

I am not a tea connoisseur, but I am a tea enthusiast and my relative ignorance allows me to make very interesting discoveries. This was the case two days ago in a local outdoor market, where there was a stand of Serendipity Infusions. I had seen them before and had bought tea from them which I had enjoyed, so I was eager to make new discoveries. I got very curious about their Vietnam OP, as I rarely if every drank teas from Vietnam. So I bought one pack of Vietnam OP and one pack of something else (I will blog about the latter another time). I was really impressed when I tried this one: for a black tea it is really smooth, even delicate, it has plenty of flavour, but none of the bitterness one can expect in black teas. So that is one more land of tea makers to explore.