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Reserve Tea - A Grass That Smelled of Violets
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Everything in today's cup has a colour — except for the pale, straw-yellow pieces that look as if they were dry before they were ever dried. They sit in the water, hollow and faintly gold, doing almost nothing, but their scent is unmistakable: a lemon that isn’t a lemon, softer and greener than fruit, rising behind the mint. The taste is cool at the edges, bright in the middle, and the thing that brings the brightness was never grown for tea at all. Sometimes, what something is for gets decided in rooms it never entered.
Today's cup: Happy Melon Tea exclusive to their studio in Armadale, Melbourne.
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