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drank Black Orchid by Mariage Frères
408 tasting notes

I have a cold and I am not able to smell the dry leaf unfortunately.
But my taste remains intact and this vanilla tea is really different from the ones I have had until now.

The mellowness of this tea is incredible, it’s so smooth, delicious feeling.
The Vanilla is not a sweet vanilla, it’s a lovely sharp Vanilla to me but it may come from my steeping time (4,5 min) and the tea base used by MF.
I think there is some assam probably here because I get a hint of astringency at the very end of the sip and it may be different with a shorter steep – I’ll retry next time with 2,5 or 3 min.
Anyway this astringency is a pleasant one so I can rate this high quality tea.

Thank you so much cteresa for this sample, this is lovely.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 30 sec
Sil

sounds lovely!

Tuscanteal

I use to have this in my cupboard. Loved it!

TheTeaFairy

I’m hoping your cold goes away quickly and does’t transform into something worst like last time…
Ditto with Sil, the tea sounds lovely. I do like a little astringency in my morning black tea.

JustJames

from pneumonia into a cold! you need to change the theme, madame!

cteresa

ouch, poor you.

Ysaurella

ahaha this is nothing regarding what I had, I even just didn’t pay attention to it until I wanted to sniff Black Orchid…

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Sil

sounds lovely!

Tuscanteal

I use to have this in my cupboard. Loved it!

TheTeaFairy

I’m hoping your cold goes away quickly and does’t transform into something worst like last time…
Ditto with Sil, the tea sounds lovely. I do like a little astringency in my morning black tea.

JustJames

from pneumonia into a cold! you need to change the theme, madame!

cteresa

ouch, poor you.

Ysaurella

ahaha this is nothing regarding what I had, I even just didn’t pay attention to it until I wanted to sniff Black Orchid…

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First, please forgive me for my English and all the grammatical mistakes you’ll find in my posts.
As English isn’t my mother tongue it sometimes makes things more difficult to express cleverly and accurately what I feel.

I was mainly in black flavoured teas, green as well if not bitter.
I’m now drinking much straight teas because my palate is now developed enough to appreciate them .

My favourite brands are : Taiwan tea Crafts, Teavivre, Mariage Frères,Theodor,Butiki Teas,Dammann Frères, Betjeman & Barton.
My ratings are as follow :

100 to 95 : my darlings; always in my cupboard (or very often ! )

94 to 90 : Excellent tea

89 to 80 : very good tea, a pleasure to drink it

79 to 70: not bad even quite nice, why not having it sometimes, but well,it’s not so urgent !

69 to 50 : Meh, deceptive or just not for me – but has some qualities

49 to 30 : I just don’t appreciate it

Under 30 : is this thing supposed to be tea ?!?!?

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http://thevangeliste.wordpress.com/

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