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 …
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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 …
Passion de Fleurs – Dammann Frères
In the bag, just what I was looking for – lushly and ripely fruity, with a nice complexity – it smells like passion fruit and apricot/peach compote, if there was ever such a thing. (The brewed tea, on the other hand, smells like wet fruit leaf.) Taste wise, well – I tried this at 90 …
Mandarine-Verveine BIO – Comptoir des thés et des épices
I so rarely come into contact with verbena/vervain in any form that now, when I have this golden opportunity, it’s going to be very, very hard to not make at least one Vampire Diaries joke per sentence. But I will try. This is, according to my highly scientific calculations (I checked the tray of untried …
Le Thé d’Amandine – Comptoir des thés et des épices
Since I’ve been so deep into my Comptoir cups lately, I might as well keep it up into the new year. Reading about this one, I was excited about the almond-cherry combination. Artificial cherry can be so vile, but sometimes it veers very nicely into bitter almond, so I figured this tea could be a …
Cookie – Lupicia
I need to get started on my truffle-infused New Year’s preparations, so to finish off this (tea-) year in review, what better candidate than my favorite tea find of all from 2013? Oh, Cookie – no matter how you steep or how you brew, when I’m alone, I’d rather be with you; **** these other leafs, …
Violette-Framboise – Comptoir des thés et des épices
I’ve been catching up on books and movies lately – the World War Z mantra is as suitable as any other for that process, or moving into the new year, or getting through the tea stash, for that matter: movimiento es vida. This has been a year of chapters closing, much like the year before it. …