Back to the Palais des Thes with some dread. Today it’s Le The Merveilleux, which boldly promises to be “green tea with sweet notes of caramelized almonds and pistachio bursting with flavours and emotions.”
Who’s bursting with emotions? The green tea? The pistachios? Or me for having to endure another cup of this watery doom?
First off, it smells quite nice, like those dried fruit/nut shops you can find in the city. A lot of aromas going on at once, but the dominant one is almond. Not “caramelized,” just marzipan-type sweet almond.
Like most of the other teas from this brand, it’s watery. It tastes like a third steep every time. Today, I brewed it with 100ml of water for an extra minute beyond recommendations and I’m still getting very little flavour. It tastes like a generic tisane with some hints of marzipan and cinnamon. I get no hint of the green tea nor pistachio whatsoever.
For a similar flavour profile that actually tastes of something, try Roasted Almond by Clipper Ship. It’s caffeine free but is exceedingly more pleasant than this flavourless mess at less than half the price.
The English name on this is “Tea of Wonder.” I Wonder how this Tea company is still in business. Perhaps their market is people who really don’t like tea, rather like Starbucks is for people who really don’t like coffee.
Flavors: Almond, Cinnamon, Nutty
Ah, life is too short to drink cups of ‘watery doom’ even if it made me lol. Maybe you should swap with someone for some stout breakfast tea.
Haha! If I’d had a whole tin of this, I’d have passed it onto someone I really didn’t like all that much. Luckily, it’s part of their advent calendar, so only a single serving need be endured. I’d switch this out for an ancient, back of the drawer bog-standard Lipton in a heartbeat if it came down to it.
I’ve had pretty good luck with Palais des Thes unflavored/single estate varieties; sorry your results weren’t the same with their blends.
The advent calendar I got was mostly blends, I believe, the but the jasmine wasn’t bad. I’ll see if I can rustle up a single estate variety in there, perhaps I’ll have better luck.