This one was high on my list to pick up at Fauchon, and even though the matching confiture was sold out, the tea was still around. I love almond, orange is pretty great, and it’s an oolong.
They had a small jar of the dry leaf sitting out at the store and it looked kind of like a traditional tieguanyin base… hand curled leaf balls, but dark, olive green color. Turns out I was correct. There was also some unexplained large-diameter stick in my infuser, but whatever. I am normally not huge on traditional (roasted) TGY, but I think it can work really well in some blends, and this seems to be one.
The roasty flavor is a nice complement to the sweet almond. I wouldn’t call this particularly citrusy, but the orange adds a slight brightness and slight sweetness to the blend I think. It’s kind of like a slightly orangey almond cookie, complete with oven-baking. Oh, maybe even more like orange blossom almond cookies, which I love. Anyway, the afteraste is awesome, as it is very almondy, like I just drank some amaretto. I am happy with this one for sure.
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oooh a new company I haven’t heard of! yay! :P
IB…that’s because you’ve been living under a rock far away from steep steer lately :p
This one sounds delicious dinosara
Haha IB, it’s probably one to not get too invested in… A French company that doesn’t ship outside of Europe. Annoying because they have a bunch of delicious teas!
This sounds really nice, I should go to fauchon to look at their teas. Thanks Dinosara for tasting it
Just means we need to plan another swap with ysaurella to have more tasty tasty French teas lol
Sil, yeah, I need to get some tea “sun” :P
@ Sil yes no probs and with pleasure asap I’ll get new teas. At the moment it’s so hot here I just drink my teas iced and don’t buy any new !
Ysaurella – I understand that! I hate the heat!
oooh a new company I haven’t heard of! yay! :P
IB…that’s because you’ve been living under a rock far away from steep steer lately :p
This one sounds delicious dinosara
Haha IB, it’s probably one to not get too invested in… A French company that doesn’t ship outside of Europe. Annoying because they have a bunch of delicious teas!
This sounds really nice, I should go to fauchon to look at their teas. Thanks Dinosara for tasting it
Just means we need to plan another swap with ysaurella to have more tasty tasty French teas lol
Sil, yeah, I need to get some tea “sun” :P
@ Sil yes no probs and with pleasure asap I’ll get new teas. At the moment it’s so hot here I just drink my teas iced and don’t buy any new !
Ysaurella – I understand that! I hate the heat!