Mariage Frères Advent 2021 – Day 8
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
I don’t know because this tea, as named on its satchet, does not exist on MF’s website! Is Rainbow Rhapsody just White Rhapsody rebranded? Cue existential questions.
This is another fruity white-green-oolong spectrum tea by MF (the 2nd white tea of the advent). Some hay, citrus, and melon notes from the base are difficult to differentiate from the light fruit flavouring. Citrus is a kind of pomelo (gentle grapefruit) flavour, or even a cherry-ish blood orange. The subtle melon comes out cantaloupe. It’s a tricky muddled fruit salad tea, where all the juices have mixed. The broth hue is pinkish red (from fruit pieces; I opened the satchet to check!).
Steep Count: 2 – I found cherry to be a consistent flavour. Unfortunately, it’s not my favourite fruit in tea. Still, not bad.. just not exciting either.
Flavors: Berries, Blood Orange, Cantaloupe, Cherry, Citrus Fruits, Fruit Punch, Fruity, Hay, Melon
Ok, now I’ve got this song singing in my head…
It’s such an earworm (sorry)! It got stuck in my head too as soon as I saw the tea name :)