As you can tell, I’m box-sampling way outside of my comfort zone this time around. Next up, lemongrass! There were two lemongrasses (uh) in the box, so I figured I’d compare, even if one is a yerba maté (this one) and the other a straight-up herbal. I was surprised that I liked the scent of …
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2014
Thé des Alizés – Palais des Thés
On paper, this seems right up my alley. I remember smelling it in the Tel Aviv Palais des Thés last summer, too, and I liked it a lot. I know Palais get a lot of flak in terms of quality and pricing, but there’s something about their flavored teas that really does it for me. …
Green Peach Leaf Tea – Whittard of Chelsea
I’m so caffeinated now the selection process for this one went something like… oh, peach green peach green peach, huh? are there even green peaches? or is it because the tea is green? green peach what a pretty fruit all green but peach like yeah …and then imagine that really pinball-staccato and jittery. I have a …
Nepal – Shangri-Lâ Temple – Theodor
So I continue to venture outside my tea comfort zone with this one. On the sample bag, as you EU-swappers will note, it says, ‘not a black tea’, but as has been pointed out, it is actually black, but should be treated as a green. Now, I’m someone who tends to slap her greens and …
Queen Catherine – Harney & Sons
Today is quite the daunting tasting note day – first I take on Tribute, and now this? In this case, however, we can just go ahead and blame my complete lack of interest in plain blacks. There is exactly one such previous review by me, namely this one: http://gluttonette.com/?p=293h So I suppose I could have just left this …
Tribute – Theodor
Okay, so you remember that Thé d’amandine (Comptoir des thés et des épices) review that prompted my Steepster friend Y, our resident fairy godmother of Theodor tea samples to offer some up in the first place? Well, I do. I’ve been so curious about this one – I mean, a comment such as, “Tribute by …
Samouraï – Mariage Frères
I remember reading a Steepster friend’s note for this four months back and laughing so hard at the following, “…have no idea why they call it samouraï, I can’t think of anything less samurai like than this tea.” Now I’m sitting here with the remaining half of her hard-earned sample – there’s no way I …
Chocolate Orange Slice – Della Terra Teas
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 …
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 …