This tea… is gorgeous!
It tastes just like red-berry concentrated syrups that my grandmother used to make. You would add water to it to get a nice, refreshing juice. The last time I had it was probably nearly 20 years ago.
There exist some blends that try to imitate this kind of syrup, at least in Poland I’ve known some, they are usually herbal and bagged teas. Needless to say, they all would taste quite artificial. This one does not.
It retains this berry syrup flavor but also charms you with its delicately astringent base. And it feels like drinking this refreshing juice when I was a little girl. So amazing. I would not, not in a million years, expect this tea to take me back to an almost forgotten flavor of my childhood. Thank you, Mariage Frères!
And thank you, Anna, for a sample of this! I am glad that I like this one so much because it seems to be one of the more US-available of the French teas :)
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…and you’re officially a Mariage Frères fan! My devious plan worked!
And I have so many more from them to try, the sheer thought of it makes me want to squeal! :D
so wish i’d had time to organise MF with you before you left anna… though with terris teas it’s the last thing i need lol
Haha, aw, there’s always time, Sil!
Oh, and Kat – I got your package! It was there waiting for me when I came back on Sunday, so it got there some time last week. You sent me SO MUCH STUFF, and wow, thank you for being so thoughtful concerning my Tea Projects. <3
It’ll be so much fun trying everything – thanks again!
Hell yeah, I am so glad you got it! I hope you will enjoy the teas! I am surely enjoying the ones from you. I was just getting ready to choose a green one from your swap :)
Oh, the site ate part of my note because I made a heart, haha. Steepster can be SO unromantic sometimes. I think it just said, ’I’m writing notes for everything as soon as I get a chance to try it, and it’ll be…’ and the rest you have there. =)
And yeah, also totally glad it arrived. I love sending packages, because it’s always like a small act of faith – it’s traveling, on its own, all intrepid. I usually think of my packages as the milk carton in that Blur video, but I’m terrible about anthropomorphing things.
Anyway, let me know if you’d like some more of this – I hardcore prefer the green one, and doubt I’ll use up all of the black.
You are right about packages. While I hate the idea of them getting lost, I kind of like the risk of that involved. The way that sending them makes you feel, like you have no control over it any more, even with tracking, anything might happen to it, really. And you cannot say that about many things in this digital age. We always know where our friends and family are, we can always stay in touch, no matter what. Whenever you send a bigger package it’s like people sending their children to faraway boarding school in the 19th century – hopefully they’ll get a letter back from them, 2 weeks later, in which kids say they are okay ;)
But yeah, anyway! I would love some more of this. We might organize another swap :D I just ordered from Lupicia a few days ago and I think you might be interested in some of my picks :)
Oh, and the milk carton in the Blur video mention (here I would put a heart, but I remembered it’s better not to).
Ooooh. You said Lupicia! Well, I’m all over this now, haha.
And thanks for nailing my ambiguous package feels so perfectly.
Great, it’s set then! I actually got a notice not so long ago from Lupicia that they’ve shipped my order. Now I just have to wait so that it crawls from west to east. I am NOT good at waiting ;D
…and you’re officially a Mariage Frères fan! My devious plan worked!
And I have so many more from them to try, the sheer thought of it makes me want to squeal! :D
so wish i’d had time to organise MF with you before you left anna… though with terris teas it’s the last thing i need lol
Haha, aw, there’s always time, Sil!
Oh, and Kat – I got your package! It was there waiting for me when I came back on Sunday, so it got there some time last week. You sent me SO MUCH STUFF, and wow, thank you for being so thoughtful concerning my Tea Projects. <3
It’ll be so much fun trying everything – thanks again!
Hell yeah, I am so glad you got it! I hope you will enjoy the teas! I am surely enjoying the ones from you. I was just getting ready to choose a green one from your swap :)
Oh, the site ate part of my note because I made a heart, haha. Steepster can be SO unromantic sometimes. I think it just said, ’I’m writing notes for everything as soon as I get a chance to try it, and it’ll be…’ and the rest you have there. =)
And yeah, also totally glad it arrived. I love sending packages, because it’s always like a small act of faith – it’s traveling, on its own, all intrepid. I usually think of my packages as the milk carton in that Blur video, but I’m terrible about anthropomorphing things.
Anyway, let me know if you’d like some more of this – I hardcore prefer the green one, and doubt I’ll use up all of the black.
You are right about packages. While I hate the idea of them getting lost, I kind of like the risk of that involved. The way that sending them makes you feel, like you have no control over it any more, even with tracking, anything might happen to it, really. And you cannot say that about many things in this digital age. We always know where our friends and family are, we can always stay in touch, no matter what. Whenever you send a bigger package it’s like people sending their children to faraway boarding school in the 19th century – hopefully they’ll get a letter back from them, 2 weeks later, in which kids say they are okay ;)
But yeah, anyway! I would love some more of this. We might organize another swap :D I just ordered from Lupicia a few days ago and I think you might be interested in some of my picks :)
Oh, and the milk carton in the Blur video mention (here I would put a heart, but I remembered it’s better not to).
Ooooh. You said Lupicia! Well, I’m all over this now, haha.
And thanks for nailing my ambiguous package feels so perfectly.
Great, it’s set then! I actually got a notice not so long ago from Lupicia that they’ve shipped my order. Now I just have to wait so that it crawls from west to east. I am NOT good at waiting ;D