Now this is the last of the Comptoir teas, and this time I’m not mistaken. It’s a bit confusing, as this smells almost exactly like Le Thé d’Amandine by the same company. (Reviewed here: http://gluttonette.com/?p=493) Obviously, these two teas have completely different flavor profiles on paper, some of which comes through in the brewed tea. Weirdly, this one …
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Comptoir des thés et des épices
Thé Vert Baies Sauvages BIO – Comptoir des thés et des épices
Sometimes it’s good to be wrong; I thought I’d tried all my Comptoir teas, but there was one sample and one black tea that were hiding behind everything else on the tray. This is the sample. The picture of the dry tea looks very pretty, but there is nothing even resembling a strawberry in my …
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 …
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. …