Pale gold and crumbling with crust mottled dark, almost bronze, pieces of honeycomb lie on a plate.
Flecked with the pale paper of hive, their hexagonal cells leak into the deepening pool of amber.
On your lips, against palate, tooth and tongue,the viscous sugar squeezes from its chambers, sears sweetness into your throat until you chew pulp and wax from a blue city of bees.
Between your teeth is the blown flower and the flower’s seed. Passport pages stamped and turning.
Death’s officious hum. Both the candle and its anther of flame. Your own yellow hunger.
Never say you can’t take this world into your mouth!!
Think of your Appetite…. What ignites it……where it leads you…. what suffices you. Think unafraid. Think Sweet. Think Fierce. Think audacious. Think vast. Think wide… and you’ll feel the world shrinking, to fit right in your mouth!! Now think how could you have missed your own significance?? Well, complement yourself on having missed it, because how else would you bear witness to your appetites – those that conspire to make you realize your significance. Think meaning rising and then dissipating to make more meaning.
There is no other earthly way to describe the Autumn Appetite than the words of Paulann Petersen eating the ‘blue city of bees’. Except think drinking an entire season, an entire tea garden!
This Autumn tea won’t compete for your appetite, with your boldest second flush, instead it will fiercely reignite your appetite, all over again- for all of it, again. Think sweet and fierce. Think the fierceness of autumn to exist between the scorching summer and frozen winter. Think of fierceness as guarding its tenderness – it’ll make sense. Now, expect tenderness and think of tasting ‘sweet and fierce’ in your mouth. That’s the Autumn Appetite, right there.
The Autumn Appetite is a full bodied, dense tea – both the candle and its anther of flame- harvested from the AV2 clones rarely found on high elevation peaks where temperature drops to zero, this is a very well oxidized tea. With the Darjeeling minerality and slightly woody notes it seems needless to mention the dense fruity-floral, honey-soaked notes of autumn and how well they sit realized in your mouth as your eyes feast upon the dense coppery red liquor rippling in your cup.
Whilst not the only one, it is the most well-rounded tea you will let your appetite indulge in.
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