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A.C. Perch 2022 Advent Day 9: Organic Black Christmas

While the base is smooth, the clove is the most prominent flavour. Nonetheless an easy enough cup to polish off.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 12

This one came in a larger tin that can be repurposed as a wee ornament. We decided to do a teapot since there was more tea.

I found this one interesting as a Christmas tea, since it was just clove and orange and the majority of spiced holiday teas I’ve come across usually also have cinnamon. This was more clove heavy and I had a bit of trouble picking out the orange. The base tea was again incredibly smooth with not even a hint of astringency. Lots more to experiment with of this one, so hopefully I can tease out some more orange here.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 11

This one is quite tasty as well. Absolutely no astringency and overall smooth. This is a strong black breakfast-type tea. This one has that hint of syrup flavour that I find in some English breakfast teas, but it’s quite subtle here.

If I had to choose, I would take the Kenyan tea over this, but I’m quite happy with both.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 10

This one has a sort of melon scent and a lovely light flavour of papaya and mulberry. The tea base is lovely against the fruit pieces and it’s nice to have a white tea with some flavour. The ingredients also include apple and jasmine, but I don’t get either of those very clearly. A loved this one! I imagine this would be delightful chilled.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 9

I’m happy to say there’s no bitterness here and this seems like a fairly standard green tea. It’s not overly vegetal, or seaweed-y, like some of the Japanese green teas I’ve tried. If anything there is a hint of butter — very subtle. The cup is overall quite smooth (this is turning out to be the word for the entire A.C. Perch calendar).

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I noticed a hint of bitterness with some sweetness overlaying it. Nothing too special, but most certainly my own fault for letting it cool. I threw the rest of the leaves in my cup to steep a fresh cup, but I think I overleaped because it was quite bitter — very radicchio!

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 8

This one smells very fruity, I’d say a mix of strawberry with papaya and a hint of creaminess. The steeped scent is nearly exactly the same. The taste is much more subtle. This is so smooth (even with a 5-minute steep), the base tase has no astringency and the flavouring adds hints of creaminess and fresh strawberries and perhaps raspberry. There is also meant to have papaya and kiwi, but I don’t get much flavour coming through for either of those.

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A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 6

The dry scent is a nice mix of grapefruit and bergamot, but not too strong.

With a 5-minute steep time, I feared this would be drying in the mouth, but there’s no astringency. I don’t know how they make these teas so smooth! The steeped tea tastes exactly like the scent and is delightful. I would order this one for the cupboard.

A.C. Perch 2022 Advent Day 1: White Christmas Tea

The scent is quite strongly cinnamon, but the blending of this tea was really well done with the spices not overtaking the base at all.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 5

This one came in a much bigger tin with a ribbon attached to reuse the tin as a wee ornament!

The scent is strongly cinnamon candy hearts, which makes me think of the cinnamon tea from H&S with a similar scents that tastes like liquified cinnamon hearts. The steeped tea smells very similar but mellowed out, with the cinnamon falling more to the background. The flavours are much more subtle and smooth, also I like that there’s coconut included in this blend – how unique. All of these teas are so smooth!

I bought this one about a year ago to help reinduct me into the world of tea and it was exactly what I needed. The intense fruity flavors provide a delicious foundation upon which delicate notes of white and green teas are set, rather than the other way around. Any bitterness that the green tea may lend the brew serves well to contrast, and therefore emphasize, the peachy taste.
When cooled for an iced tea, the white and green tea flavors come forward.
An excellent tea for beginners, or the well-acquainted tea drinker who likes a strong fruit flavor.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 4

The tea was far more lemongrass forward, but all the flavours were very subtle and very smooth. It was a lovely cup!

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 3

The CTC cut is so small, it almost looks like coffee. This tea is bold, but with only the subtlest hints of tannic-ness at the end. It’s ever so slightly malty. I can’t get over the lack of astringency/tannic notes as sometimes that can be the downfall for these bold black teas.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 2

This tea smells of jasmine and mint. The taste is very mellow. Subtle hints of mint and jasmine intertwined equally, not neither too strong. I understeeped this by one minute because 5 minutes seemed extreme for a green tea base. There is a slight peppermint coolness in the aftertaste, but it’s still mellow. I’m quite happy with this one.

A.C. Perch Advent 2021 Day 1

The first tea has a wonderful background and on top of that it smells amazing steeped. A mix of floral with sweetness, making me think of a high mountain black/oolong mix. There was a sweetness to this tea paired with an oolong flavour (I’m not sure exactly how to describe that — it wasn’t mineral/cardboard, but something else).

I made a resteep and it’s decent, but I don’t know that it’s really one I’d bother resteeping.

Our A.C. Perch’s advents have arrived and with it, a sample of this tea!

The steeped scent is enough to notice, but not overly intense or cloying. The scent is reminiscent of warmed pineapple. The green rooibos base is lovely and the flavour has hints of pineapple, passionfruit, and some sea buckthorn that come through subtly.

This tea is PERFECTION. I went to Copenhagen on a layover. AC Perch’s was a MUST STOP for me. It’s the world’s most perfect tea shop. Very busy with the kindest workers. I asked for their best seller, and they gave me 100G of this. I am almost done, after 2 weeks, and already put some in the cart online. It’s so fresh, fruity, layered. This tea iced is like a punch. Blissful. And the dry leaf smell is one of the best I have ever smelt. Friend, please get some plane tickets, get to Copenhagen, and GO HERE, and buy this tea. Yes, you can buy it online. But the shop is so delightful, along with the rest of the Danish city.

This might become by everyday drinking tea. It soothes me for some reason.

This one is so good! The oolong base is not too oolong-y, neither super green and floral nor especially dark and roasty, and the raspberry is just right, almost like my dear lamented Haru Poro Poro from Lupicia. It is a little syrupy (though never artificial), but that’s no bad thing in my book—a good raspberry syrup is one of life’s great joys, IMO. I’ve prepared this a bunch of different ways, both hot and cold, but I think it’s at its very best cold-steeped and iced. I only wish this one was easier to get ahold of here in the States, since I don’t think I’ll make it back to Denmark any time in the foreseeable future.

Thanks for this one, Greenteafairy! This is NOT just raspberries in this blend! Within the steeped leaves, I’m seeing all sorts of fruits: something that looks like a tiny cranberry, strawberries, either a blueberry or black currant… basically a lot of things but not raspberry. I love a fruity oolong anyway. The oolong leaf itself looks more like pouchong than a rolled up leaf oolong. It’s tough to tell what type it is exactly, especially mixed with all that fruit.
Steep #1 // 1 1/2 tsp // few minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // few min a.b. // 2-3 min

Thanks for this sample, Greenteafairy! A leafy Pai Mu Tan type with a candy peach flavor. I wish I had saved this one for summer! There seemed to be other ingredients than the peach (like a cardamom pod? Hmm.) and there also seemed to be other fruit flavors that should have made an appearance, but I didn’t find those. An okay blend!
Steep #1 // 2 tsps // 20 min after boiling // 1 minute steep
Steep #2 // few minutes after boiling // 2-3 min steep