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Reserve Tea - The Last Thing to Arrive
Description
The Reserve Tea opens with a cup that glows green-gold, shifting in the light like a leaf held to a window. Four shapes loosen in the pot—leaf, stalk, flower, root—each from a different plant, none of them the tea bush. The surface is scattered with buds that drift and never sink, while something pale and fibrous waits at the bottom, the odd one out. The first sip is all peppermint and lemongrass, bright and clean, but what lingers is a sweetness that arrives late and stays long after the cup is empty. There is a trick to how some things last.
Today's cup: Happy Melon Reserve — Exclusive to Happy Melon Yoga Studio in Armadale only.
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A tea and a musing every weekday morning.
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