Paper & Tea

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 22: Milk River

This had a characteristic oolong flavour, with subtle hints of sweetness at the end of the sip. The tea was somewhere between light and medium-bodied. I’d order more of this one.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 21: Queen’s Grace

I agree with the floral notes here, but there was a defined bitterness/astringency at the forefront.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 20: In the Mood for Love

As soon as I opened the bag and the jasmine scent wafted out, I felt nauseous. This one was an immediate compost-down.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 19: Moroccan Mint

Lovely mint tea. As if the case with all P&T, a smooth cup! I’m really not a fan of mint tea and generally only drink it when I’m not feeling well. As I make my way through this teapot, it just tastes more and more like the rubber sole of a new sneaker.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 18: Golden Earl

A wonderful EG! I enjoyed P&T’s Red Earl as well as their bergamot is insanely smooth and seemingly complementary to all things. The floral notes are more mellow than others, yet the overall taste is very clean and almost crisp. We’ve been drinking these completely out of order, so although Emerald Earl was day 16 (and this is day 18), I haven’t yet tried the green base. I am quite excited to get to it. This one I would happily keep in my cupboard.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 17: Green Rooibos

I’ve never had a straight green rooibos and it was what one might expect. Fine, but nothing special.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 16: Emerald Earl

I really enjoy the bergamot/EG flavour from P&T and was quite excited to see it here. While this is a lovely tea, the green tea base came through just behind the bergamot and wasn’t my favourite. There was a definite grassiness that I’m not a fan of. Nonetheless, I finished the entire cup and did enjoy it.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 15: Vintage Lotus

I’m not generally a fan of pu’erh, unless the tea itself is perfectly hidden. Alas, it is not here and thus, this was dumped.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 14: Top of the Day

This one was so pretty I had to take a photo of the dry leaf. These ingredients come together to create a wonderful cup. This one I would order for the cupboard!

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 13: Orange Kiss

Lovely, comforting cup. Mostly chamomile with whispers of orange.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 12: Tiger Rock Wu Lu

A really enjoyed this one. I would say the notes they mention are bang-on: sweet pea, nutty, and a bit umami-like.

2023 sipdown no. 72

Freshly steeped, this smells summer sweet, like fresh nectar from a flower. However, as the tea cools, it just doesn’t sit quite right with me — that sweetness borders on cloying (as much as a completely unflavoured tea can) — I’m being quite picky here, but this one steeps up either perfectly, or in this weird way. I do think there’s something to be said for drinking this as soon as it’s at a drinkable temperature (as hot/warm as possible).

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 11: Beads of Gratitude

Lovely green oolong. I ordered 50g this one and will do a more detailed review.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 10: Nandana

Lovely black breakfast-like, malty tea. I ordered 50g this one and will do a more detailed review when I have more time.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 9: McKeag’s Lapsang

I think we all knew I would skip this one over.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 8: Yerba Maté

This is quite lovely. It reminds me of summer and warm weather. It’s not like warmed grass but warmed some sort of greenery. I find this to be a very calming drink and I would order this one for the cupboard.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 7: Tip of the Morning

This was decent. Smooth breakfast tea.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 6: Winter Punch

Very Vicks cough drop (red flavour). Dumped.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 5: Grain of Truth

Lovely genmaicha. We both really enjoyed this one!

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 4: Red Earl

This was amazing. Incredibly smooth and perfectly flavoured. I couldn’t taste any rooibos flavour. This is the best non-caffeinated EG I’ve had and I would add it to my cupboard.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 3: 1876

This was a tasty tea. Light bodied with hints of sweetness. I didn’t take any detailed notes.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 2: Mighty Green

Definitely oversteeped this one (though not by much, but it did not turn out). Dumped.

Paper & Tea 2022 Advent Day 1: Muse

This tea is very smooth with a nice sweetness in the sip. The overall flavour falls somewhere into a light to medium bodied with no astringency.

I noticed I hadn´t checked in this tea yet, although it was most likely the first of the Paper & Tea teas I tried.
This is really a very enjoyable blend, of both green and black tea with added joy for the nose, as the rose and jasmine join in wonderfully! What I even like better is that this fragrance keeps you company during the entire process of dry leaves→steep→sip. Furthermore, the floral character makes this a perfect afternoon tea.
Once again, I only use a little more than half of the by P&T recommended amount of tea leaves, but I respect the brewing instructions : 2 brews with steeping time of 1:30 each will do nicely!