Vanilla Lavender Black Iced Tea

I started with a beautiful organic Assam black tea base as I was channeling my Irish roots (I'm half Irish, half Ukrainian)...Assam is the base of Irish Breakfast and is malty rich, divine with milk, and soulfully satisfying. I think my Irish grandfather's kindhearted spirit then inspired me to find a lavender essential oil to blend with this rich vanilla extract that is new to my potion-lab, and when the lavender and vanilla united with the Assam, tea alchemy occurred--the scent was so transportive and intoxicating I felt like I was being guided back to the days of listening to Grandpa Ralph's Patsy Cline albums with him as he smoked his perfume pipe tobacco and told stories to us grandkids.