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 …
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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 …
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 …
Je T’Aime – Theodor
Oh, okay, wow. So I’m having quite the The O Dor sample party today, courtesy of some Steepster friends and the EU swap box. Before yesterday, I was a Theodor virgin, but things are getting pretty depraved pretty fast over here. All these preconceived notions of what I’m going to like are so often completely turned on …
Celebration – Theodor
This has been a bit of a revelation, to be honest – I have come to a realization. I’m just going to come right out and say it. I don’t need chocolate teas in my life. Honestly, that’s pretty huge on a tea preferences scale, seeing as I love everything else chocolate. Seriously – chocolate is …
Jamaïque – Mariage Frères
Right, so how do I even explain the origin of this sample? Well, we’re doing the second round of the EU swap box, and a Steepster friend forgot to put one of the samples she wanted to send out in the box… so she sent an envelope, too, a few days later. Of course, seeing …
Cookie – Lupicia
Stuff has a tendency to add up and I don’t want to stand here in a few months with the realization I would need 8 full boxes to escape with even half my stuff. So I’m doing the responsible thing and am bringing two suitcases home with me – one full of stuff I can’t …