Tea and Me

Yesterday afternoon I was binge drinking the rather lovely Draught of Peace , which is a specialist blend made by Robert Pirlot for Adagio in their ‘ Fandom ’ blends range called Magic Potions .  I couldn’t really talk about this tea without mentioning the other blends in the set at the same time so this is a review of the Magic Potions sampler, with separate reviews attached for each of the teas. Doing this has given me a chance to revisit the other teas in the set as well – which I can honestly say has been a real pleasure. Adagio UK's banner for Magic Potions I originally came across Adagio when I was searching for Harry Potter merchandise. You really can buy anything under the sun to do with the boy wizard these days, and tea is no exception. On the US site , which I discovered first (which is absolutely amazing but the shipping costs are prohibitively expensive alas, otherwise I would be the owner of great quantities of Chestnut tea amongst other t...

Why Brew for 21 days when you have instant polyjuice? Polyjuice Potion is a very complicated potion that allows the drinker to assume the form of someone else. WARNING cannot change into an Animal. Ingredients: black tea, cinnamon bark, ginger root, rooibos tea, cardamom, dried coconut, lemon grass, cloves, orange peels, cocoa nibs, natural coconut flavour, natural chocolate flavour, natural vanilla flavour, natural cinnamon flavour The teas used to create this blend are: thai chai , chocolate chai and rooibos vanilla chai . Polyjuice is one of the blends in the Magic Potions sampler box by Adagio Teas . It smells absolutely amazing, just as you’d expect from something that blends three different types of chai — and you can definitely smell the chocolate (always a favourite with me). It also tastes pretty good, even considering the coconut (which I absolutely detest). I suspect this is because it’s fairly subtle and I can’t taste it and the spiciness mask...