This is the fourth and final melon tea I have to try – it’s been great fun to compare. In this case, the dry tea smells perfectly melony – I often find that melon scents are a little hard to keep apart; I know it’s melon, but which melon? With this one, I get a lot of …
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Melon White Tea – Lupicia
Lupicia, how are you even… Lupicia, how can you even… Lupicia, how is this even… I can’t even. Just like the melon oolong from the same company (Reviewed here: http://gluttonette.com/?p=463) this is a perfect melon, both in the bag and steeped. It’s light, and smooth, and in every possible way beyond reproach. It lacks the dirty ripeness of …
Jasmine Silver Needle – Adagio Teas
Oh. The bag is really, genuinely, irrevocably empty now. I shook it and held it upside down and everything. And I can’t get any more right now. Flurr. [Sample from the EU Travelling Box, autumn 2013.][Sample polished off in Rome, January 2014.] 90 C, 3 min 30
Rhubarb Vanilla – Fru P Kaffe & The
Oh wow, the leaf expansion. Completely unexpected. I turned away for a second (Okay, well, fine, four minutes.) and just SPLORFA! I swear I did not overleaf. Anyway, I’ve tried a good number of rhubarb teas, and they all too often end up too tart for my tastes. A little tonguetip-tartness is fine, but not a …
White Ginger Pear – Tea Forté
When my friend and I went to Venice for the final, flickering moments of the Biennale, I picked up some sample tea bags from Tea Forte that were on sale while she was shopping for gifts. That’s how it always goes – I accompany someone as they shop. They buy gifts for others. I buy …
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 …
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 …
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. …
White Mulberry – A.C. Perch’s
Again, I cheated a little. I surreptitiously emptied the tiny tiny sample left of this that I’d been clinging to into the extra super pretty Lupicia tin I got in October. Poof, gone! Because thanks to T. and her unsurpassed Christmas gift giving skills I now have a full tin’s worth of this. I could not be …
Cantaloupe and Cream – Butiki Teas
So time for round two of this melon tea extravaganza. This has a subtle cantaloupe/honeydew scent dry. I will admit to cheating a little with the amount of leaf used, going by my previous two instances of following the brewing instructions to a T (again, major punface) with Butiki teas. In the cup, the melon …