20 Tasting Notes

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drank Marco Polo by Mariage Frères
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I don’t like this tea. This is my shame. I LOVE Mariage Frères teas. I wanted to love this one, but now I have almost a whole tin of this and don’t know what to do with it. I like Harney & Sons’ Paris tea and thought since people compare them often and Mariage Frères teas have always been the ne plus ultra of any flavor, I couldn’t go wrong. However, this tastes like flowers to me and although lovely to smell and gaze upon I have never ascended to the level of sophistication wherein I enjoy the taste of flowers.

Preparation
Boiling

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83

If I can’t afford Mariage Frères’ French Breakfast Tea, this is my basic breakfast tea. It holds up well to milk and sugar. It is a nice plain tea. Sometimes even dessert craving sugar fiends like me want something plain and reliable with which to start the day and this fits the bill. It even doesn’t get too bitter if I let it steep a bit longer than usual. (I’m usually on the ball but I sometimes take 10 or 20 seconds before I attend to my tea timer.)

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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98

I got a tin of this last Christmas and saved it until my wedding in June. It’s almost gone now. I love it. It smells incredible – chocolate and caramel. It tastes incredible too. I drink it sweetened with milk because it’s already so indulgent, I just bask in the sumptuous sweetness. On that note, I’m really careful not to over-steep it. Anything over five minutes starts to bring out the tannins. I give it four minutes, 45 seconds on the clock to give me time to run over and remove the leaves before it hits five minutes.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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84
drank Paris by Harney & Sons
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I got this right around the time I got Mariage Frères’ Marco Polo and I really like this and really don’t like Marco Polo. That really took me by surprise since I love every other Mariage Frères tea I’ve had. However Marco Polo is just too floral for me. Paris, on the other hand, although reminiscent of Marco Polo, is just enough of everything. I’m really sensitive to bitter flavors and normally avoid bergamot but this isn’t bitter in the slightest. It’s just a lovely subtle mingling of fruit flavors that make this taste like a delicious black tea plus. I usually have it with honey and milk.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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96

I love cinnamon. I love spice. I love this tea. This is sweet and spicy and perfect for autumn. In fact I store this away in the summer because it evokes harvest time so strongly for me.

If you read my other reviews it becomes clear I also love sweet things. I don’t sweeten white or green tea and rarely sweeten tisanes but as a rule I sweeten black teas. I’ve sweetened this tea before and it’s like drinking liquid cinnamon toast without the salty butter and good bread taste to counterbalance it. That said, occasionally I want to freebase sugar and this, sweetened with milk, hooks a girl up. The rest of the time I drink it straight and it’s sweet enough on it’s own, even for me!

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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88

Recently I’ve been trying local honey in my tea as a way to battle seasonal allergies. I thought vanilla and honey sounded lovely and it has been. I have sweetened this with sugar as well and enjoyed it. I usually make tea lattes with it and really enjoy the vanilla flavour. It’s not overpowering (could vanilla ever be?) but it’s strong enough that when I got down to the end of the tin I was able to blend one teaspoon straight black tea (Allegro) and one teaspoon of this and still taste some vanilla. (My desire to stretch it out for so long says a lot – not the least of the message is that I need to find someplace closer that stocks this tea.)

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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86
drank Creme Caramel by The Tea Spot
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This is a great dessert tea. I make it with a good shot of milk and sweetened with sugar. It reminds me of dulce de leche ice cream, but much more fitting for winter weather.

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39

I love the way this smells! I love the way this looks with the beautiful rosebuds! I wish I loved the way it tastes. However, I’m just not a fan of drinking flowers. A friend I served it to just loved it. As for me, it’s mild enough that I can drink it when I want a fairy springtime atmosphere but it’s not a tea I find myself wanting to drink for the flavour.

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84

This was my first breakfast tea back when I put a good bit of sugar in my tea along with milk. I like the chocolate although it’s not strong. I’m not a pu’erh drinker so I can’t identify what notes the pu’erh may be adding. It once was my favorite breakfast tea and although it no longer is I like to have it on hand as it truly does satisfy coffee drinkers as well as tea drinkers. I still like it best sweetened and with milk.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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53
drank Red Rocks by The Tea Spot
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When I want a cup of tea it’s black tea that I’m imagining but I do try to cut out the caffeine as night falls. Thus I turn to Red Rocks. I like seeing the almond pieces as I make my tea and you definitely do taste almonds in the tea as well as the vanilla. However I can’t rave about this tea because as much as I like almonds and vanilla, I don’t really like rooibos. So, my final verdict is: as an herbal tea before bed time, it’s nice enough.

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