Aug 30
Review: Stash Decaf Pumpkin Spice
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The World Tea Expo is the tea industry tradeshow, an exposition hall filled with hundreds of industry related booths. Most of the vendors are tea growers, manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers presenting their products to retail business owners and buyers. When you first enter the fragrance of tea is intoxicating. There are more than 1000 teas on display and being brewed to sample. You get used to the smell of the tea within a few minutes. The air is so thick with tea that your olfactory sense adjusts. And after two full days of tasting, your taste buds can become a bit tired. So, when I say that I discovered a new tea near the end of the third day, it must have some exceptional qualities.I was rushing back to my own booth with no plan to taste more teas ...œ not during the last hour of the third day of Expo. The staff in the Stash Tea Booth was serving Decaf Pumpkin Spice. The aroma caught me as I passed. I certainly would not have sought out a bagged, decaf, flavored tea in the midst of world's most prized artisan leaves. But the aroma stopped me cold. They had prepared the sample with milk ...œ also a challenge to my intolerance of lactose. All of my judgmental criteria aside, I walked away with a handful of sample bags and have kept them in stock ever since.
Stash's Decaf Pumpkin Spice keeps me from that piece of pie for dessert. It is also the flavor that most please the ladies in my critique group who could care less about my Ti Kwan Yin. It's the favorite of my 4-year-old nephew and my 80-year-old mother. It's the most popular flavor at the concession table I host for our high school choir concerts and when I serve tea at bookstore signings.
Stash produces a quality tea that I can proudly recommend and know that it is easily found on grocery store shelves and online. It's great both hot and cold. With milk and sweetener or without. I've also experimented with the leaves as a baking ingredient. It infuses more color and flavor in my Kitchen Sink Cookies and is my mystery ingredient in Zucchini Bread.
It's not my morning brew but it is always in stock in my tea cupboard. My friends remember and ask for it.
— To purchase Stash Decaf Pumpkin Spice, or for more specific information on ingredients or the story behind this particular blend, click here to go directly to the manufacturer's web site.
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