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This is my review of the other sample (tea bag) I was given when buying tea at Palais des Thés shop in Angers last week. I´m rather overwhelmed by this tea, as I didn´t expect me to like it as much as I did : it´s a minty green tea which really does justice to its name of “glacial”, as it´s like having a polo mint in your mouth for quite some time after having drunk the tea!
When I go to have a “couscous”, I always finish the meal by having a mint tea, and the sugar dose of these mint teas are high enough to not have me going for another one for the rest of the year…so, what I really love here is the freshness of the mint w/o the sugar levels associated with mint teas. I have drunk the tea hot, as indicated on the tea bag, but I really believe this could be a wonderful iced tea, so I definitely want to buy more when visiting a Palais des Thés shop next time.
“Deliciously combines the fresh, peppery flavor of mint leaves with the herbal notes of a green tea from China.” …indeed, a lovely combination. Moreover, I believe this tea can interest both herbal tea lovers as green tea aficionados.

Flavors: Green, Mint

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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80

I see here I had this tea already a few years ago, at that time steeping a sample tea bag they had given me in the Angers Palais des Thés shop. This time it´s a tea bag I picked up during a stay at one of the hotels of the Accor group. As I recently spent quite some time away from home, away from my loose tea cupboard, away from my water boiler which can be put to heat up to 60-100ºC, I used quite a few of the tea bags I still had laying about.
Not too fond of most green teas, not too fond of red fruit infusions, so not too fond of this tea, but at least it´s well blended, and is far better quality than what most (even high class) hotels offer.

Flavors: Green, Red Fruits

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 8 OZ / 250 ML

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80

As the Jardin à la française tea from Palais des Thés was quite successful as a tea to have iced over the Summer, and my stock was running out, I organised to get some more at the shop in Angers. Bought another tea I am going to try out as iced tea, as long as the warm weather continues, but first I wanted to try the samples (tea bag) I was given.
This Thé du Hammam was one of them. Palais des Thés really takes care of the way it packs the tea : although I prefer loose tea (and buy it in practical pouches which can be closed again after use), their tea bags are very “chic”. It says “Inspired by a traditional Turkish recipe, this green tea smells of orange blossoms, roses, berries, and the flesh of green dates.” I think there also might be some vanilla present, which combines quite nicely with the berries. I am not a big berry flavoured tea fan, but here they don´t dominate the blend. I maybe had the tea steeping for a bit longer than indicated on the tea bag (5´instead of 3´), but the colour was still very pale strawlike. Not too aromatical, and also in taste the berries are very well detectable…but fortunately don´t dominate the taste either. Couldn´t really tell the other aroma´s (orange very subtle, rose ?, green dates maybe more indirectly through the tea´s sweetness), but on the whole it is balanced and easy drinking, not too grassy (what I hate about a lot of green teas). Nice to try, nothing to drink regularly though…for me at least.

Flavors: Berries, Dates, Green, Orange Blossom, Vanilla

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 5 min, 0 sec

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drank Fancy by Palais des Thés
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Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 25 OZ / 750 ML

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95

Stronger tea with an aroma! Very nice Yunnan and well worth the purchase!

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75

Light and sweet flavor of the apple and the spices.

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drank Mélange du Cap by Palais des Thés
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Mmm this is a tasty dessert rooibos. Thank you to VariaTEA for sharing! I coldbrewed this one because I’m too lazy to brew things properly. Instead I dump some looseleaf into a gravity steeper and fill it with water. No strainers, brew times, or water temperatures to worry about.

Red rooibos base, heavy minerals and vanilla, background flavour of carob, raw cocoa, and honey. It is basically a vanilla/honey/cocoa rooibos. The rooibos is very rooibosy, so avoid this one if you don’t prefer rooibos. I think it goes really well, and rooibos always takes flavour well.

Flavors: Chocolate, Cocoa, Honey, Mineral, Rooibos, Vanilla

Preparation
Iced
Sil

haha i know where this one is from!

VariaTEA

Haha Sil, what can I say…I got a generous sample and therefore had enough to share when asked :P

Sil

no i love it! it’s so good to share

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A delicate green tea flavour caresses the tongue, encircled by slight floral and cherry notes. It’s simple, which is why this tea invites the same tranquillity of a Zen garden. It’s easy to image the feel of the sun’s heat on your face and it’s stark contrast to the occasional touches of a chill breeze; to see a landscape of cherry blossoms petals, that fall with the gentlest of movements, slowly descending through the air, until they land in a babbling stream of water and are graciously carried into the serenity of a koi filled pond.

Fleur de Geisha is a lightly fragrant green tea that whisks you away to another land. Its gentle and relaxing and exactly what you need in the middle of a busy day.

www.Tastethetea>co.uk

Preparation
1 tsp 0 OZ / 0 ML

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60

Finished this off today so may as well write it up. This was a present from a well meaning friend who heard me mention a while back that I wanted to get into puerh teas. It’s a loose leaf shou puerh and not bad as an introduction, with almost no fermentation flavour. I have to say that there isn’t much flavour or depth to it brewed gong fu.

However, it makes a very nice cup when brewed western style, hearty with a somewhat thick mouthfeel. Overall, not bad as an introduction to shou puerh but you can definitely do better.

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When I visited the Palais des thés shop in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), I got a sample of this Thé des Lords (tea bag). It is basically an Earl Grey black tea, so I was looking forward to tasting this one. Very fragrant in a typical citrusy way, but with a floral touch to it (due to the safflower petals added to this tea?). But the aroma´s after steeping are too floral and too little bergamot-like, as far as I am concerned… resulting in a “light” tea I am not too fond of. A bit of a disappointment therefore.

Flavors: Bergamot, Floral

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 30 sec

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93

About a month ago, I tried this tea in the convential way and I really liked it. Summer has arrived and from the beginning, temperatures are high, very high even (up to 40ºC), and then I want my water to be a little bit less tasteless. I had already picked this tea to make home made ice tea, and I have started to make batches of it daily this week : what a lovely iced tea this Jardin à la française makes! Basically the same aroma´s as the hot brewed tea, and the sweetness of the pear works very well in this iced tea. I already know I´ll have to plan a visit to the shop when returning to Belgium (or France) in August, as I´m sure this pack will have gone.

Flavors: Pear

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 8 min or more 3 tsp 34 OZ / 1000 ML

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93

Last week I was in my home country (Belgium), and I travelled around quite a bit. It´s amazing how often a tea shop now makes part of those nice little shops one can find in a city´s centre, and Louvain-la-Neuve is not an exception. Near the Grand Place is a wonderful tea shop from the French Palais des Thés chain. As soon as I stepped in, I was offered a taster (I could choose between a black tea and a herbal tea, I opted for the first) and I got an explanation about the way they present the teas here (you can experience the fragrances of the tea by picking up a bell glass), before I started my discovery tour of the shop and the teas they offered. The packaging is really well taken care of, also the design I think is really nice, and the choice offered of tea is alright (not too many “off the beaten track” teas though). As I find it particularly difficult to find a nice fruit based tea (on the real stuff, not on aroma´s!) I can easily cold brew, I finally bought this Jardin à la française tea, which is a herbal tea dominated by a very natural pear fragrance. Back at home, I tried the tea today…preparing it the “normal” way, i.e. hot : the very elegant pear fragrance is present in the loose tea, in the steeping tea, in the final brew, until the last sip, which is definitely a big plus! After 4-5 minutes of steeping, the colour is still very light, but the taste is well developed (and the pear taste always comes over naturally), so I can only imagine this giving a wonderful result cold as well. I only hope I´ll still be having tea when the hot days arrive and I really need a cold brew ;-)

Flavors: Pear

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 4 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 10 OZ / 300 ML

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So I made this cup immediately after drinking Granville Island’s Monk’s Blend, and it was really interesting having that immediate contrast. Granville’s is the much more classically North American interpretation of a Monk’s Blend while PDT’s various much more from that standard and incorporates some less conventional ingredients like green tea and bergamot;.

It’s still very good, and the thinks that I think it’s actually even ‘better’ with are the aroma and finish which have a really calming floral quality to go alongside the overall sweetness. It’s also arguably a more complex cup compared to the straight forward black tea and grenadine of the former. However, I’d be lying if I said that I liked it more than the former despite its complexity and the other things that I think this tea gets right.

Mostly I think I find it a little too floral and perfumed, but also there’s just less clarity to the flavours overall and part of what I like so much about the North American interpretation is just how clear and distinct the grenadine note is set against that brisk black tea. The green and black mix of this blend is too “soft” to me, by comparison…

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Cold Brew Sipdown (234)!

Finishing this one off this afternoon as a cold brew, just to do something different with it. I actually really like this cold brew – like, A LOT more than I enjoyed the hot cups of it. It’s really quite silky and smooth with primarily bergamot notes and then hints of jasmine and something creamy in the undertones. It almost tastes like it could be a cream Earl Grey blend, but I don’t think there’s actually vanilla in this tea so I don’t know where that’s coming from…

Really though, it’s great. Even if the vanilla flavour winds up being a ‘phantom note’ concocted by my subconscious, this is a very smooth brew with the perfect ratio of bergamot/earl grey flavours and floral notes.

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Drank this one again today at work.

It started off the exact same as the first tasting I had with it, but as the tea cooled down significantly throughout the busy work day it seemed to feel more dull/flat in taste at luke warm/cold temperatures than it does when hot and fresh. Best drink this one hot, I feel.

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Another from MissB!

Is it weird to say that I was more fascinated by the test tube-looking container this sample came in than the tea itself? I felt like I was doing some kind of weird science as I poured the leaf out into the Steeper to brew this up. Tea science. It was satisfying.

So, what I’m gathering from the Steepster page for this tea since I don’t read French well is that this is basically a green and black hybrid with jasmine and bergamot. I guess that sounds alright; not super thrilling though. Not all that unique either. It does brew up pretty nicely though; quite smooth and flavourful with more of the black tea coming through than the green, and a bigger presence of jasmine than bergamot. Still hints of both the green base and the bergamot but very much undertones. It’s nice, I’ll make it through the sample just fine. Probably wont spend much time dwelling on it afterwards though.

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GCTTB

Perhaps it is my steeping technique, but I am not getting any richness here. Apple, yes. Cinnamon, yes. Very light black base. Not satisfying to me. Just not my cup of tea. Back into the box it goes. Perhaps others will have better luck with it.

Thank you, Ubacat, for adding this one to the box.

Flavors: Apple, Cinnamon

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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drank Thé du Hammam by Palais des Thés
1500 tasting notes

Oddly, not enjoying this as much as I have in the past. Mind you, cooled, any tea tastes differently. So I’m chalking it up to the temperature and not the tea. For now. ;)

Cooled, this smells like grassy, pink, cheap bubblegum, the kind you’d get when you were a kid, all soft and gooey even as you took it out of the packaging. Add in some wheatgrass juice smell (not taste) and you’ve got a lovely little mix. Some floral notes, a bit thick and buttery, it’s lovely… just not amazing.

Flavors: Butter, Candy, Floral, Grass, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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drank Thé du Hammam by Palais des Thés
1500 tasting notes

A beautifully stunning, complex tea. Smells softly of vanilla and something floral (like cornflowers, not jasmine) and sweet. I love this tea. Love like a delicate flower that isn’t too cloying and sweet, yet still magically dances in the breeze joyfully.

Yes, it’s that good.

Flavors: Creamy, Floral, Sweet, Vanilla

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Evol Ving Ness

Clearly, I need this tea.

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drank Thé des Moines by Palais des Thés
1500 tasting notes

Okay, not my favorite. I hoped, after smelling it, that I could learn to love this… c’mon, it’s Palais des Thes. But the scents of jasmine and bergamot… nope, nope, nope. Just not my thing. Maybe, possibly, on their own… yea, no.

This might be lovely for someone that loves these flavors in their tea – and thus why I keep on giving this to an ex who LOVES blergamot.

Received another sample box from Palais des Thes because my original RedditGift got lost in transit – and then arrived four months later. So, expect more of these reviews in the next few months.

Flavors: Bergamot, Floral, Jasmine

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Evol Ving Ness

Sounds like something Sil might like. :)

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I love spice and citrus combinations, and I liked the idea of a spiced green tea, so I asked a friend who lives in Paris to buy me this tea. The flavour is pretty good, although I’d have preferred the spices to be slightly more prominent. The main note is without a doubt the citrus, with just a little additional warmth added by the spices. Good, but not one of my favourites.

Flavors: Citrus Zest, Citrusy, Spicy

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 7 OZ / 200 ML

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95

I used to love red rooibos, then hated it, now I rarely drink it. Until now.. this tea is absolutely divine. I’ll seek this out again – sadly, it was just a sample in a RedditGifts “extra” gift.

Flavors: Creamy, Vanilla

Preparation
8 min or more 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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