Mariage Frères Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 9
Is it even a Mariage Frères advent without a version of Marco Polo showing up?
The famous red fruit aroma is present but the choice of oolong base is gentler than either the black tea and green tea versions I’ve tried in the past. It has light vegetal, floral, and mineral notes (on the second steep it’s almost milky in that silky way of green oolongs). With this delicate profile, the fruit flavours not only tastes like strawberry-rhubarb but also goji berries. The first steep was kind of woody and earthy too, although that’s probably from the blue pea flowers (woody is what leads into the goji interpretation).
Steep Count: 3 – as usual, the second steep of the oolong is my preferred one so far. It mostly loses the woody note, which I personally find a little jarring and would rather do without.
Flavors: Butter, Floral, Goji, Mineral, Red Fruits, Rhubarb, Silky, Smooth, Strawberry, Vanilla, Vegetal, Woody
