In addition to Butiki’s Three Friends, this is the chocolate-orange tea I most often see on my dash, so I wanted to try it out. The scent of the dry tea has a tang that balances precariously between candied orange peel and artificial orange – it can’t quite make up its mind. Brewed, it gains …
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Monk’s Blend – English Tea Store
This will be an uncharacteristically short tasting note, because this is so nondescript. It both looks and smells good in the bag – nice big leaf with petals, vaguely sweetfruity scent. In the cup, though, it just sort of… sits. Sure, there’s a vague fruitness about it, and a subtle vanilla I think people who …
Rouge d’Automne – Mariage Frères
The rooibos version of this is one of my favourite reds, so I had to try the black. It has very little to do with the familiar one in my cupboard, though. Scent wise, the dry tea has a thick, buttery richness to it that I recognized so well but couldn’t quite place. And then it struck …
Je T’Aime – Theodor
Oh, okay, wow. So I’m having quite the The O Dor sample party today, courtesy of some Steepster friends and the EU swap box. Before yesterday, I was a Theodor virgin, but things are getting pretty depraved pretty fast over here. All these preconceived notions of what I’m going to like are so often completely turned on …
Celebration – Theodor
This has been a bit of a revelation, to be honest – I have come to a realization. I’m just going to come right out and say it. I don’t need chocolate teas in my life. Honestly, that’s pretty huge on a tea preferences scale, seeing as I love everything else chocolate. Seriously – chocolate is …
Jamaïque – Mariage Frères
Right, so how do I even explain the origin of this sample? Well, we’re doing the second round of the EU swap box, and a Steepster friend forgot to put one of the samples she wanted to send out in the box… so she sent an envelope, too, a few days later. Of course, seeing …
Inachevée de Constantinople – Theodor
So a while back I received some samples from a Steepster friend, but I have neither been in possession of the time nor the faculties for note writing until now, so the samples have had to wait patiently. In very pretty air-tight containers, though, so they haven’t exactly been languishing. My benefactress had recommended 75C …
Vanilla Orchid – David’s Tea
So I was going to wish my friend I haven’t talked to in a while a happy birthday but it turned out she was dead. I didn’t die when I was 28. Neither did you. (I guess we got lucky.) So happy belated birthday, and happy Valentine’s Day. The tea? Oh, it tastes the same …
Ripe Mango Oolong – Lupicia
Usually, when my luggage gets lost, I enjoy myself, because hey, free clothes. But this time around, I don’t really need anything. And Italy is the worst possible place for me to shop for basics. They don’t have my toothpaste. They don’t have toothbrushes I like. (Seriously. I have to TRAVEL to find reasonably soft toothbrushes here.) They don’t …
Piccolo Principe – Il Coloniale Rimini
It’s a sopping wet mess over here right now. Just rain, rain and rain. I was out for lunch with a friend and we gave up even trying to be outside when the worst downpour started. We found ourselves right beside this place that I’ve walked past for years and years but never tried (https://bit.ly/2BmFA0V) …