This one was an easy swap pick – I wanted to try some more flavoured pu’erhs, and this had that good old, bad old pu’erh smell. I didn’t get much orange then and still don’t, but it’s clear that some kind of flavouring is at play, rather than this being a straight-up pu’erh. It brews …
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2014
Chili Truffle – Hans & Grete
So I was lavishly T-spoiled for Christmas – this is one of the teas I got. It smells absolutely ridiculous – it’s just too good. Like a somewhat sweeter, a little more chocolatey version of Cookie and Mariage Impérial blending together. I was worried about the chili element first, as I have a hard time …
Karkadé – Pompadour
Oh, holy horror. So my friend K is a sweetheart in every possible way. We were talking about tea at some point in December and she said she had this amazing tea I had to try, which, in fact, was Italian. And I was delighted, because hey – some Italian looseleaf company I had yet to hear …
Prince Vladimir – Kusmi Tea
This is one of those teas I’ve always avoided. When I picked it out going by scent, though, I think the hot mess that is Mamma Mia from David’s Tea had infiltrated this bag a little, in spite of being double-bagged itself. As I now smell the tea, I get far less wacky fruit punch. …
Jasmine Silver Needle – Adagio Teas
I might as well come out and say it: I’m one of them. I bat for the fragrant other team, I really do. I love jasmine. And one of my tea goals (Yes, I really set some – and let this also be a reminder, sweet friend T, that we are not under any circumstances to buy any …
Tamarind Pop – Butiki Teas
This one I ordered completely on a whim – I don’t have more than a fairly indifferent relationship with the fruit itself. The dry tea smells like candied tamarinds, and I get a vague taste/scent recollection that doesn’t really place me in a specific time or place; nonetheless, it’s familiar. As was the case with …
Strawberry Oolong – Butiki Teas
This smells so beautiful steeped; very light, floral and perfumey – it took me a while to figure out what it reminded me of, but then I realized it’s those floral wreaths that are on sale from carts all over Bangkok. I get absolutely nothing resembling strawberry. In the cup, the flavour is very subtle, …
Tè pesca – Carrefour
I recently picked this up in the grab cupboard of the communal kitchen. That’s an awesome cupboard! As close to a condiment Narnia as you can come. I thought the tea would be green, but it’s black. I also thought it would be vile, but, strangely, it’s not. It’s a very basic, not particularly artificial …
Almond Tea – A.C. Perch’s
I am completely confused by this tea. Picking it out blindly (see my note on Vanilla from Fru P) I thought it was a pu’erh, or something along those lines – it definitely didn’t smell like almond, or even bitter almond. So imagine my surprise when I read the label and realized it was ACP’s …
Vanilla – Fru P Kaffe & The
So it’s clearly time to start dipping into the samples from the EU box swap I did. These are chosen on scent and scent alone – I had no clue what it was I was smelling, as I wanted to try to choose as instinctively as possible. It’s easy to get bogged down with recommendations …