So I’m slowly experimenting my way through the teas I have yet to try cold-steeped. (Seriously – the things I do to avoid rating those really confusing ones still labeled undrunk in my cupboard.) This one wasn’t a given at all, seeing how subtle the fruity notes are, and how it’s not particularly sweet. Sometimes, …
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September 2013
Vert à la vanille – Palais des Thés
So I now have my new variable temperature kettle from Bosch to play with. (I finally found the one I wanted through an Italian vendor, so I didn’t have to produce any sort of documents at all to resolve the hostage situation that generally ensues when I receive a suspicious package from a foreign country.) …
Rooibos Tropica – Teavana
Oh! Oh! Oh! So I cold-steeped the last of this. Unholy artificial citrus horror would sum it up quite well. I’m dropping this from an indifferent 55 to a near-objectionable 30 for the sheer offensiveness that is Rooibos Tropica iced. Why not lower? Because paired with these citrusy, almondy cantucci I’m having, it’s beautiful. My …
White Temple Tea – A.C. Perchs
So yesterday, when I said I was going to make another pitcher, I did make another pitcher. And now I find myself having to make yet another pitcher, because this is so very good it seems to just evaporate all on its own. Sorry about the utter lack of variety in tasting notes at the …
White Temple Tea – A.C. Perch’s
This time around, I cold-steeped this, as opposed to cooling a hot-steeped tea. There’s definitely a difference, and for the better – it tastes clearer and lighter, and even the most delicate flavours seem crisper, more well-defined. Now this might be typical for cold-steeping versus cooling a hot-brewed tea of this kind, but I haven’t …
Studio 54 – Bönor & blad
So this, like Safari from the same company, was a tea I got for a friend, but as everything didn’t fit into the little travel kit I put together for her, I got stuck with some to try out for myself. (I am so unfortunate. Suffering. Really.) I was looking for the black equivalent of …
Momo Oolong Super Grade – Lupicia
I brewed this a little hotter than usual. This kicked the fruity notes down a notch, but really brought out the oolong base, which is ridiculously good. And it re-steeps so well. In my last review I reminded myself to try this cold. I hereby re-remind myself; I just have to finish the huge pitcher …
La Poire – Palais des Thés
I still stand by everything I wrote in my last tasting note for this tea, but as I have had so many quite exceptional greens lately, I feel inclined to drop my rating by five points (Quelle insolence!). I want to cold brew something today, though – if it’s this one I drop into the …
Pleine Lune – Mariage Frères
…and another steep and re-steep. I want to court this tea and love it very tenderly. Forever. Boiling, 3 min 30
Wedding Impérial – Mariage Frères
Steeped, and re-steeped. It just gets better. Boiling, 3 min 30