Fauchon

Another one that i haven’t pulled out in a long time. Need to get cracking on some of my teas that I have larger quantities of. This is one that i’ve been holding on to because i love it so much.

Final Count: 152

Finished off last night with a cup of this tea because i haven’t had it in forever. It was exactly as i wanted it to be, deliciously creamy orange chocolate. I adore this tea.

woohoo! pulled this one out yesterday and added just a couple cacao shells to the mix while brewing. seriously, i love this tea. chocolate orange deliciousness. I really have missed drinking this tea.

farewell delicious tea….i will miss you and search for you again. The last cup was a perfect balance of chocolate and orange. Life is good.

Final Count: 170

one more cup left of this one before it’s all gone. Had my second last cup tonight while watching Dallas Buyer’s Club. mostly though..just a really nice end to the weekend.

last tea of the evening…so close to finishing up so many teas. :) Two packages supposedly waiting for me tomorrow so i’m a little scared of my impending cupboard implosion…BUT it’s still 2 weeks until the end of the month…so i’m not worried.. 140 here i come!

Final Count: 139 (soon to be much, much higher lol)

mmmmm cup of this, with a few cacao shells in it to enhance the chocolate… SOooo good. I’m going to miss this one. I really hope that it comes back to Winners sometime since that’s likely the only way i’ll be getting it again any time soon.

Final Count: 145 (woot! made me sipdown goal today…now can i get 5 more in tmrw…)

Mmmmmm other tea tonight while the internet goes up and down like a seesaw. Ugh. So good. Soooo close to being done :(

second last tea of the evening…soo delicious, and the perfect chocolatey, orange cap to the day of sipdowns…even if my movie watching tonight was ruined by testing running over…like it always does… ugh

Last tea of the evening since I have to work tomorrow. Blech. Not looking forward to it but at least I can do it at home! Plus this weekend, my parents are around for a day or so. It’ll be nice to see them.

oh man… speaking of orange creamsicles….i so wish this tea tasted exactly like it smells…but it doesn’t ‘cause it’s chocolate and orange. But man, ditch the chocolate and THIS would be it.

Now…having said that. YES! i am a fan! I have no issues with rooibos so it’s game on for me.. orange and cocoa and soooo good! Glad i picked this one up during my winner’s fauchon splurge :)

more tea from variaTEA, figured i’d start with some of the teas in tins. It was nice to see this one again though i think it’s aged a little. The creamy lemon is a little less bright than i remembered, but still tasty. :)

my last cup of this…farewell winter tea! Maybe that means spring will be just around the corner.On the whole, i really enjoyed this tea more than i thought i would given my preferences when it comes to white teas. I’m not sure that i’d purchase it again, but i’d be willing to share a tin or swap for some more in future!

mmmm so strange how delicious this is. I’m glad i shared the tin with Cavo, because i’m not sure i could get through a whole tin, but the amount i do have i will enjoy. creamy delicious lemoney goodness :) When fauchon does something right (without flowers!) they do it right :)

I’m not really sure what possessed me to buy an entire tin of a white tea. But i did. I think i was carried away with that whole FAUCHON! at winners! stupidly cheap prices! GO! so now i have a huge tin of this. And i don’t really like white teas…

but this tea? I like it! so ha! I couldn’t drink this everyday but it’s certainly a tasty tea. Creamy vanilla delicious tea with a splash of “wake up! it’s lemon!” :) Yep…i will enjoy this, though it may take me the whole year to drink it.

This is a Fauchon tea (#50) that I bought kind of on a whim, because it was there, and I thought it might be fine although the flavors didn’t really call to me. It seems like a tea I wouldn’t like all that much (I don’t usually do mint, and never with fruit), but somehow the raspberry and mint actually work together here. I think it’s the sizeable helping of creamy vanilla that smooths it all out and brings it together. I definitely don’t regret buying it.

Behold, the only minty tea that I actually really like. It’s minty, but it’s not overly minty. I think it’s the creaminess that really smooths it over and makes it work for me. Granted, I don’t reach for it that often because I often have to be in the mood for a minty tea, but I do enjoy it. I should probably keep it in mind for after lunches out where I come back with onion breath, or if I need a stomach settler. I never think of mint for that, but it is an obvious choice!

This is another tea that I have thanks to MissB! Canada definitely got more of the Fauchon teas than I ever saw in the States.

So I’m not usually one for mint in teas, but I bought this one anyway because I thought perhaps a small amount of mint used judiciously could work in a blend. For me, it does. Does it remind me of birthday cake? Well, not any kind of birthday cake I know. It does, however, remind me of some creamy, minty confection that is really lovely. I like a soft mint, and this is a soft mint. I think it’s kind of like buttermints… those mint candies that are creamy and just kind of dissolve in your mouth immediately. And although I usually don’t go for fruit and mint, the raspberry and mint works here for me. I could, honestly, imagine a raspberry mint buttercream frosting that would taste like this. For once, that sounds really tasty to me. :)

This is a tea (#51) that I bought not expecting to like as much as I did. Rose and vanilla can go sideways for me, but Fauchon knows how to do it right. The raspberry probably helps. A very springy tea, and since we are starting to have very springy weather, fairly appropriate (although it is the dismal rainy kind of spring weather today). Although I am unfortunately not enjoying this in Paris.

I drank this one yesterday afternoon but didn’t log it as I got wrapped up in work. I had to skip my two Hawaiian Lupicia blends in my chronology because they live at home and I keep forgetting to bring some of the sachets in to have at work. Must try to remember!

By smell of the dry leaf alone, this tea seems like it will be overwhelming in the flavoring and floral department. It’s INTENSE. But once it’s brewed it mellows considerably. I had this one yesterday when it was still le printemps outside (today it is l’hiver again! snowing!), and it was so pleasant. Fruity, creamy, and a nice helping of rose; yes please! I thought I didn’t like rose and vanilla together (bad previous tea experiences) but this one (and a few other French teas) proves me wrong.

I’m going to start this review by saying that I’m really glad I picked this one up at TJ Maxx. This is my kind of tea!

So this is raspberry, vanilla and rose. And it’s actually the second tea in a row that I had this morning (the first being todays Dammann advent that will be logged tomorrow) that was SUPER creamy. Just lovely. The vanilla is so smooth and sweet. The raspberry is nice fruity, the rose is lush. I even like the green base on this one, which is admittedly not super prominent but it is somehow robust enough and plays well with the rest of the flavors. Yum!

huh, thanks MissB for revealing the maybe answer to the riddle!

i’ve always been a riddle boy, lol. nina’s for red fruit teas. dammann freres for fruits of all kinds. mariage freres for snapshots of impressionists’s dreams…… fauchon for flavoured greens?

a light sweet raspberry rose tea. unique. beautiful. maybe the answer is this: i like my fauchon green. don’t think i would have guessed that, lol.

thank you MissB. (always lookin’ out for me) xo

this is a beautiful piece. if i could drink it and frame it i would.