Lipton Event Photos, Part Two

A continuation of last week's photos... More from the Lipton Tea event!

The "Mind" Room coming to life -- This is where we learned about tea and the brain













The "Body" Room -- The Wii Fit, pilates balls, yoga mats and tea helped with physical fitness













The Teabar in the "Spirits" Room -- This is where I held tea tastings and pairings














Displays in the "Spirits" Room














Lounge Area in the "Spirits" Room (before guests arrived, obviously)













Dr. Tea introducing me and Peter Goggi to one of the groups













Me Lecturing on tea tasting














A group tasting tea














Time for the pairing!













The tea-chocolate truffles were amazing! (You can read more about pairing tea and sweets on World Tea News.)













A group taking notes on tea pairings














Another group tasting paired teas and foods. There were five lectures through the day, with three different sets of pairings depending on the time.














Tea cocktails were served at the end of the day. (You can read more about tea cocktails on World Tea News.)














You can contact me for tea events at vee at veetea dot com, or read more on Vee Tea.

Lipton Event Photos

Some of you may remember that I did an event with Lipton a few months back. It was a media immersion event that provided tea education to the press with regard to tea and brain activity, tea and health and tea tasting/pairing. I lead a tea tasting and pairing that matched Lipton's newish pyramid bags (which are much more sophisticated blends than their flat bags) and PureLeaf RTDs with tea-based and regular foods. Editors and writers were lead by "Dr. Tea" through four different rooms, each with a different feel -- a Lipton "store" where they could fill bags with Lipton merchandise, a "classroom" where they learned about tea and the brain, a "gym" where they played on a Wii Fit and learned about tea and weight management and a "lounge" where they learned to develop their palates and taste different teas. It was put on with a lovely, creative group of people from Ogilvy, the international PR company. Needless to say, this was a fun event to be a part of. Here are a few photos from the day. I'll be posting more from the event next week.

The "Store" Window














Cool Fruit and Spice Display













The "Store" Interior






































Peter Goggi, who is Lipton's buyer, a professionally-trained tea taster and a writer for Tea, A Magazine, at the tasting bar in the "Store"














The Lipton Tea Bar














More next week!

Lipton Event

I'm off doing an event with Lipton today. Sorry I've been so brief in my posts. Extremely busy with writing, classes and events these days. I'll be back soon, I promise! In the meantime, the first person to email me with two changes I made on Vee Tea in the last month (outside of new blog posts, of course) gets a one of the following (your pick):

Five boxes of assorted Lipton teas (including their newer pyramid bags with larger leaves and more refined flavors)
Assorted samples sent to me by various companies (I've tried them and reviewed them or taken notes for reviews and no longer need them.)
A tiny sample of Makaibari Reserve Silver Green (Incredible!!!)
A tiny sample of a fantastic First Flush Taiwanese Oolong
Two of my tea seeds