This is Lupicia at their very best. In the bag, a natural, sweet, ripe strawberry meets a rich and creamy vanilla. Lupicia usually go for a very subtle vanilla flavour, but in this case, either they’ve kicked it up a notch, or the strawberry gives it more punch, as the vanilla is highly present both …
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July 2013
Momoko – Lupicia
Scent wise, this is very peachful and sweet with vanilla. The dry tea itself is not as beautiful as many other flavoured greens from Lupicia – there’s the occasional petal, but I see no trace of the cornflower and there are no discernible pieces of fruit. Peach and vanilla with floral notes is everything I …
La Poire – Palais des Thés
Lupicia’s fruity teas tend to be the standard by which I measure all others – I love their strong scents and sweet, juicy flavours – and most of all the fact that said scents and flavours hardly ever hit artificial notes. They’re such happy, friendly teas. Sometimes, however, I want a tea that is somewhat …
Paradise Green – Lupicia
This tea is lush in the bag, petals and fruit pieces participating without being showy, and it smells absolutely gorgeous. What I usually say about Lupicia’s fruity/floral green teas coming off as very natural and fresh applies here, too. There is nothing artificial about the scent, which consists of a concentrated, ripe fruity base with …
Rouge Provence – Mariage Frères
I can’t quite explain this tea. I stumbled over the just-opened Mariage Frères store in London in the fall. I sniffed my way through everything they had. I definitely wasn’t going to buy another rooibos. The only thing I walked away with was this. What gives, Gluttonette? I gifted the one I bought to a …
Nine Dragon Golden Needle Black Tea – Teavana
This is tea #3 from the selection of four I first talked about in this post: http://gluttonette.com/?p=265 I’ve had various golden needle teas before, but I’ve never brewed them myself. The long, spiky leaves aren’t really ideal for a one-cup infuser, but it worked out. I was struck by a brief wave of OCD desire to steep them …
Precious White Peach – Teavana
I find this (Christmas sale) tea frustrating. It’s full of promise – it’s beautifully chunky with fruit and it smells so, so good. There’s just no way all that lusciousness could be lost on the way to the cup. And yet it is. Following the on-bag instructions for the hot brew produces a nearly incomprehensibly …
Goji tranbär (Goji Cranberry) – Tehörnan
What I wrote about basic, everyday rooibos teas in this post is applicable here as well: http://gluttonette.com/?p=277 This was my go-to rooibos in the fall, and consequently I have only just a little left. I thought I’d top this canister right up again, but after drinking it nearly back-to-back with the champagne and cream from the …
Tsugaru Green – Lupicia
This is the first apple tea I tried (that wasn’t of the super-sweetened Turkish variety) that I really enjoyed. To my nose, there is nothing artificial about the scent of the leaves – this is exactly what it smells like when you’re in your autumn kitchen, peeling harvested apples for jams and chutneys. Long, fragrant …
Vanilla Rhubarb – Friggs
Oh, this poor tea. Forgotten at the back of the cupboard. Best before July 2012. Then again, the bags are individually packed in plastic, and what could possibly be better than some half-stale, artificially flavoured rooibos in the evening? It’s organic, after all! Flavour wise, very wet cardboard. That might just be age, though, but …