Tastes Like: pine needles, cardamom skin, maple sap, fire logs
Feels Like: fireside after a winter walk
Get lost in billows of smoke and fireside conversation. This layered tea opens with the flavor of conifers and deep tannins. The astringency of cardamom pod cuts through the aroma of silky pipe tobacco and allspice. The flavor curls and shifts between burning wood, wet earth, and lingering maple.
This blend was inspired by childhood winters in New Hampshire with my late father: the glorious scent of pine and maple in the January maple harvest season. My father was a great admirer of Thoreau whose Walden is perhaps the most famous celebration of New England wilderness. I found the name Civil Disobedience (after Thoreau's essay) suitably bold, iconoclastic and evocative of the New England scentscape. — Gina, cofounder
Ingredients
indian black tea, taiwanese lapsang souchong black tea, cardamom pod, cardamom oil, sweet blackberry leaves, natural flavoring
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Another one of my favorite permanent stash teas. Love the cardamom in this one, it's very well balanced and absolute perfection!
I was very leary of this tea at first because of how much it stank like fake smoke, but WOW! I'm happy to say that it's a lovely, though slightly unusual, breakfast tea! It kind of feels like the kind of tea the Queen of Hearts would have at breakfast. The smoke flavor is not as strong as I had feared, especially with some sweetener and milk, which is how I prefer to have any black tea.
Just tried this tea for the first time, and i love it! I've been buying August tea for years and was so intrigued by the description of this one. It's a great balance to my other August teas which are sweeter. This tea is smokey and unlike any other tea i've ever had. 100% recommend.
The cardamom! The smokiness! I turn to this tea when I am wanting peace to bloom in me and the world.
So here's the thing. This tea causes me to be disobedient because I should not drink it late in the day because of the caffeine. But it tastes so delicious, that I do anyway. Bad, bad Hazel!
I enjoy the smokiness of it. It is a very full-bodied tea...guess 'cause it's black. So, I really did not have to use a full tablespoon for the brewing. This is good because it will last a bit longer.
The cardamom did not overpower the tea. I like cardamom so I thought that I would taste more of it. Even though I did not, I still enjoyed the hint of it.
I am glad that I tried it and once I get to some others that I have not had, I will order it again.
