Mélange de Galice

Tea type
Black Fruit Blend
Ingredients
Calendula Petals, Ceylon Black Tea, Chinese Black Tea, Mallow Flowers, Peach Flavour, Vanilla Flavour
Flavors
Cream, Peach, Vanilla, Bread, Fruity, Honey, Malt, Spices, Bitter, Candy, Smooth, Stonefruit, Tannic, Tart
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 4 min, 45 sec 3 g 12 oz / 352 ml

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  • “Thank you so much cteresa for sharing some of this tea with me ! I should say right now : I like it but I prefer Nosy Bey from Dammann Frères. Aroms of these two teas are really similar but...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Geographical relativism is a bitch. I think my mental image, associations of Galicia, the region are pretty different than from a Parisian´s associations. For me it´s “up north”, “lá para cima”,...” Read full tasting note
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  • “First teapot brewed with the sample sent by CTeresa. Thanks a lot, that was a good hit! The smell of the dry leaves was very fruity appealing – definitely peachy. I must confess I did not follow...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Okay – now this is the official sipdown I had some left in the Breville from yesterday so I resteeped the tea leaves with some added water and the left overs for 8 mins at boiling. Maybe a little...” Read full tasting note
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From THEODOR

This black tea, this flavored creation signed by the House will be savored throughout the day for the greediest ones’ pleasure, for a sunny tea time filled with sweetness.

When you open your tea bag or tin, you can admire its delicious composition; its whole long black leaves, prettily decorated with cornflower and mallow petals, adding a touch of purple and yellow to this blend; and breathe in the fruity flavors, slightly creamy that are released from it.

In your mouth, the smooth and soft texture of this flavored black tea does not leave any bitterness, nor astringency, but on the contrary it reveals rather nice and sweet flavors, with a light sourness. Your palate is going to take delight in these flavors of stewed fruit in a first phase, before enjoying a beautiful long finish.

This flavored black tea can be savored perfectly for a moment of relaxation, while looking for some sunshine and a change of scene. THEODOR placed it on the theme of “Laziness”, through its essence characterized by desires for escape and lazing about. Its fruity and deep notes are a true invitation to relax and to holidays and they are going to provide you with many 100% vegan short tea breaks at any time of the week.

“People from the South really appreciate living at the sun’s rhythm… this need for laziness is obscene, nonsense and yet so comfortable…To take it easy? Surely, this is tempting, but is it serious?

My tea is my break, my sweet time… Through a wild peach natural flavor, I recharge my batteries taking an intimate nap and the break lasts in my mouth. That’s good enough for me!”

MAJOR NOTES: Peach, vanilla

INGREDIENTS: Black teas (Origins: China, Sri Lanka), Flavors (Peach, Vanilla), Mallow flowers, Calendula flowers.

INFUSION TIME: 3 to 4 minutes
TEMPERATURE: 195 °F (90°C)

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This one I questioned my decision on cold-brewing it. I wasn’t sure it’d work out too well but figured it’d be worth a try. I actually thought that the peach and the cream flavors were a lot more noticeable in the cold brew. A cup of this one hot was always lacking in peach or fruit.

Flavors: Cream, Peach, Vanilla

ashmanra

I will try that. I get the peach but not vanilla.

Lexie Aleah

I’ll be curious to see what you think.

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French… Sunday! Not my choice for the Father’s Day prompt (I’ll get to that later) but my last French tea sampler from Dustin (thank you!) I know it was slow-going drinking them only once a week (took six months!) but at least they didn’t just sit in my collection for years like many a swap sample/tea gift has done. So I’m pretty happy about that!

Used about 2.75g of leaf in 350ml of 205F water. Steeped for 3(ish?) minutes. I am really tired this morning and such a zombie ambling around the kitchen I didn’t pay as close attention to usual while weighing and steeping. Both the dry leaf and brewed cup have a strong peach aroma that is reminding me of the aroma of Bird & Blend’s “Peach Cobbler” tea.

This tastes like B&B’s “Peach Cobbler” to me, too, but looking back over that note, I did have a few astrigency issues on some of the cups, and this is proving to be very smooth. But it has that same deeply bready and slight honeyed sweetness from the base, with a very juicy/fresh peach flavor rather than that candied flavor I taste in a lot of teas. Simple but very satisfying!

Flavors: Bread, Fruity, Honey, Malt, Peach, Spices, Vanilla

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 12 OZ / 350 ML
tea-sipper

I almost brewed up Peach Cobbler today. And yay for timely sample sipdowns.

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Hmmm… not sure about this one. It smells very fruity. It doesn’t make me think of fresh bright peaches, but maybe it’s more of a deeper dried peach. When I sip it I get a bland fruitish flavor that goes a little tart/sour on the sides of my tongue near the back of the sip and then there is that alkaline flatness to it at the end. If I hold the tea in my mouth I can kind of get dried peaches. The finish is dried peach for sure. It leaves my mouth with that dry feeling. I’m not liking this and that surprises me because I’m usually such a huge fan of Theodor teas! I’m not giving up though. I’ll play around with the steeping parameters and also try a cold steep too. There may be hope yet!

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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Bonus Tea Swap Sample Sipdown of the Day! (5)

Bonus round! This sample is the sole survivor from my swap with ashmanra. Poor dear, I guess I’ll just have to put him out of his misery…

This is described as a peach and vanilla black tea on THE O DOR’s website. Sounds delicious to me! I think Nosy Bey from Dammann is a similar profile?

To me, this is more of a fresh peach tea. Not that I’m complaining, I love peaches! But I’m not getting any vanilla or creaminess here. What I am getting is tart peach/nectarine with a slight candy note, and a smooth base tea with very little character. There is a little touch of bitterness and astringency.

So overall, I’m not impressed with it. Oh well, one fewer tea that I need to buy! And a good thing too, that THE O DOR shipping is bananas…

Flavors: Bitter, Candy, Peach, Smooth, Stonefruit, Tannic, Tart

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

That shipping is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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