Jardin du Thé

I’m positive this is Dammann Frères, but bought it from Jardin du Thé so I’ll just leave it here. Too floral for me, little tiny bit of kiwi, but it’s all floral and bergamot-y, just a yuck on so many levels for me. Tried it, pretty sure I grabbed it for someone else, and will ship off the rest to the Canadian contingent for enjoying. Not a BAD tea, just not a tea for me.

Liquid nutella, minus the thickness of the actual product. Ummm… yes… yes!

Somehow missed this is a green and steeped it as a black. Now that it’s cold, all I’m getting is floral, drying notes, whereas the sweetness in the sip that I got while it was hot, has been relegated to the end of the gulp. Too bad, so sad.

Hm. This time around, I don’t like this at all (yet gave it an 87 last time?) I used some honey, just a touch, and that’s all I could taste. Without it, it was a bland, nothing-ness. Ick. What on earth did I do?

Guava, ginger, lemon, peach, lavender? Okay, I’ll try it. Thankfully I get zero lavender. The peach is by far the most present, and it’s a wonderful, juicy, almost like a sour peach candy. Yes! Me likely, bien sûr.

Hm. One of the teas I grabbed in Grenoble, and was told it was how this company packages their MF/DF teas. So, I grabbed it.

It’s still a weird tea – one I can’t quite put my head around. I was expecting a chai, yet it’s light, light brown, almost blonde. I get flowers (in the good French way) and cardamom, and… well… that’s it?

Time to share with someone else who might like it more.

Made this as a chai, and not sure what to think of it still. A bit floral, a bit spicy from the cardamom (but zero hot spicy), it’s a much milder tea than I was expecting. Perhaps need to have it as a straight tea before rating it.

Finally, nummy tea! Chocolate almond is what I get from this, although I added too much sweetener… without it the tea felt flat, thin. Now however, even though it’s too sweet, it’s really delicious! Dessert in a cup, with something I normally don’t enjoy too much in tea (almond).

This smells like liquid grapefruit dynamite. Absolutely amazing! Drinking it is a bit different of an experience though. I don’t get grapefruit really, unless maybe it’s a really floral pink kind that I’ve yet to try. Tart citrus with light yet strong notes of flowers, I want to say violets, but can’t quite be sure. Really wanted to love this, but I suspect it’s better suited to someone who likes florals in their teas more… gosh did I ever want this to taste as good as both the leaf and the tea smells!

When in France.. have Canadian tea! No surprise that it’s scented with maple syrup, although I honestly got little maple or syrup from the tea – more of a super thick, almost malty tea, that needed sweetener to go anywhere, and once it did — maybe — I could’ve understood where the maple syrup thang came from. Almost like the really, really dark, almost crap stuff (as if maple syrup could be crap) that hasn’t been processed, straight from the tree (yes, I’ve tapped for maple syrup before, in Québec, of course!) I’m thinking this may even be a puerh and not a black, but the packaging says black so I’ll just go with it.

Fun fact: no poutine here. Why? Because Canada won’t allow the cheese curds exported to France. Even if they did (some people do get around it, or try) it’s very, very difficult to get it here (France) in a timely manner. I just suggested someone ask a local dairy farm if they’d make them cheese curds (this IS the land of cheese, c’mon!) and no one seems to have thought of it. I’ll bet though, like here, the process is a regional thing, and it would be sacrilege here not to have biscuits de Bretagne from anywhere except Bretagne. And so, no poutine.

I know this tea is blended somewhere else in France, just can’t figure out where – so it stands with where I bought it. The aroma is lovely – like walking through violets jn the spring, on your way to pick ripe raspberries. It’s light, it’s floral, it’s sweet, almost like a floral honey (yet much lighter and delicate). Not a first love here; I could see this doing well at a little girls’ tea party, and it reminds me of the Queens’ chocolates (the rose cream in particular) that I had in London. It’s a good tea, just not my personal favorite.

Pineapple curry tea? Seriously? Okay, had to try it. Smallest amount I could get was 50g, which actually costs less than drinking it in store. Smells strongly of pineapple and tastes sweetly, lightly of it as well… light as a feather, not light as in lightly sweetened. I get the curry, but it’s oh-so-faint, and only popped when the tea was hot and with sweetener. Nice, glad I tried it, but time to share with others.