Bluebird Tea Co. Advent Calendar — Day 6 — Nearly Nirvana
Another long and tiring day and it’s another mint tea bag — today’s tea is Nearly Nirvana . Ingredients: Chinese white tea, Chinese green tea, jasmine blossoms, spearmint, orange blossom. They describe it thus: This luxury white tea with heavenly jasmine and spiritual spearmint will surely help you reach nirvana. Don't just take our word for it . . . Japanese monks say tea embodies the four Buddhist principles and the word on the street is that they also use it to help them stay awake during meditation and to quiet their grumbling tummies during fasts! I have to be honest that after yet another long and tiring day the last thing I wanted to find in my advent calendar was another mint tea bag. Although I very much enjoyed the Mojitea yesterday I was really hoping for something a bit more Christmassy and comforting today. Instead, I got spearmint and something that, at the risk of sounding like my nine-year-old nephew, looks a bit like a mug of wee. ...