This was a sample Ysaurella so kindly sent me, thanks so much! The joys of receiving great tea in the mail, made my week!
At my first thought when i sipped this was “oh my, Marco Polo and Thé à L´Opéra had a child together! And this is it!”. The red fruits and vanilla, the strong strawberry (?) note, the mixed green and black teas. And I just can not shake that impression from my head.
This is a very lovely tea – a blend of green and black, with vanilla and strawberry and a few things more indeed to make it more mysterious. It is IMO an afternoon tea, and I can see why they named it after an opera, it is such a perfect tea for an evening occasion. Lovely.
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I’m glad you loved it so much ! and so happy to see another review of this splendid tea. Now I’m looking forward to see Nicole’s one :)
This blend is to me one of the best MF I had and it deserves to be better known, and why not become as famous as Marco Polo around the world.
It is a lovely tea indeed. But I think it being a mix of green and black might be something counting against it being very popular and well known. I think this, like Balthazar and another mix of green and black I got are lovely, but I am not sure when to have them or when to reach for them. Dunno. But I think the green-black is a complicated thing.
On a tangent, Casablanca has some black tea indeed, which is hardly noticeable and something I only realized after making lots of cups of it. Don´t try Casablanca if you can avoid it – without much fuss or feeling like love at first sight, Casablanca just might make all other mint green teas “wrong”, might ruin you for cheaper mint teas.
I’m glad you loved it so much ! and so happy to see another review of this splendid tea. Now I’m looking forward to see Nicole’s one :)
This blend is to me one of the best MF I had and it deserves to be better known, and why not become as famous as Marco Polo around the world.
It is a lovely tea indeed. But I think it being a mix of green and black might be something counting against it being very popular and well known. I think this, like Balthazar and another mix of green and black I got are lovely, but I am not sure when to have them or when to reach for them. Dunno. But I think the green-black is a complicated thing.
On a tangent, Casablanca has some black tea indeed, which is hardly noticeable and something I only realized after making lots of cups of it. Don´t try Casablanca if you can avoid it – without much fuss or feeling like love at first sight, Casablanca just might make all other mint green teas “wrong”, might ruin you for cheaper mint teas.