Paris

This tea is quickly becoming my favorite black tea (alongside Lipton’s Earl Grey and some brand of chai…once I find it :). Paris’ aroma has a subtle sweetness uncharacteristic of other black teas, which makes the drinking experience quite lovely. And yet it also has that heavy bitterness of body, such that one can take it absolutely seriously as a black tea. I haven’t tried it with cream (and don’t know if I should), but it already tastes perfect without cream or milk so I don’t expect their addition to enhance the flavor. But who knows?

I bought the loose leaf tin and the leaves are also sufficiently large so as not to slip through my long-stemmed large-holed steeper (unlike another tea I tried, which shall remain nameless). That was another pleasant perk! Props to Harney & Sons!!

Finally got some of this after seeing good reviews on here. I’m not a big Earl Grey fan, but the descriptions of Paris sounded nice. And it is nice. I’m kind of sick and having a stressy day at work. This is just what I needed.

Edit. Had to downgrade my rating a little. This got super duper astringent after I let it sit for awhile.

Overboard TTB #3

Not sure if I got an older sample of this one or if it’s just a lightly flavored tea. I did pick up on a slightly fruity note and a tiny hint of vanilla, but this didn’t really come across as flavored to me…it mostly just tasted like a nice (if slightly generic) black tea. Nice, but nothing special!

This tea…let me tell you about this tea. I ordered it on a whim because I could get it for a discounted price, and the description sounded delicious. I am a big earl grey fan, so either way, I assumed I wouldn’t be disappointed.

It. Is. Delicious.

First off, I love getting tea in tins, it helps keep them fresher, the tin is well designed and beautiful, and you get a good amount of tea in it for the price. I cracked it open and I was hit with smells of warm, sweet caramel, vanilla, and lemony bergamot. I was immediately suspicious; surely it couldn’t taste as good as it smelled. But it does. It tastes EXACTLY like it smells! I devoured the first cup, and re-brewed the tea bag, to find the flavours stood up to another round.

I drank two teapots of it that day.

Needless to say, I have finished one 20 bag tin, and got another one before ran out. It’s going to be a go to for a while.

I just finished off the last bit of this that I had….
Knowing I’ll miss it in my cupboard, I’ll have to add it to my ‘restock soon’ list.
While I can’t quite distinguish all the fruit flavours in this (it’s more of a just ‘fruity’ flavour to me), it’s a mixture of fruit that I really do like… nothing too forward or obnoxious in the cup; all just blending really well together.
This morning I added a little bit of milk, which I don’t normally do, and it was exactly what I was looking for, as my daughter and I watched Sailor Moon Crystal. She’s introduced me to Sailor Moon over these last years, since it wasn’t something I watched growing up… and as far as anime goes, I’ve always been a more ‘Rurouni Kenshin’, ‘Cowboy Bebop’, and ‘Trigun’ sort of fan, so it’s been fun watching something with her that I never would on my own. :)

It’s just a fantasy, taking over like a disease.

Le Corbusier lived from 1887 to 1965. Le Corbusier was a Swiss-French architect. Le Corbusier dedicated himself to the modern city, urban planning.

It’s funny how art takes a life of its own. For a little while.

I saw some art house film Provenance at the Met last year while traveling alone. The film by Amie Siegel portrays the life and death of Le Corbusier’s chairs of the planned city Chandigarh in India. Le Corbusier planned that city. The city lives on in entropy, a posthumous daze that you’d have to be pulled out of as you wouldn’t be able to breath.

Paris by Harney and Sons harkens back to the very personification of the city of light brought about in Magic Man’s homonymic song. Licorice, Burnt Sugar, a full body burning through the chest.

I have to go to class :/
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Magic Man – Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteXdnQQSUc
Amie Siegel’s Provenance: http://amiesiegel.net/project/provenance
Serendipity: http://hypem.com/track/28rzv

Every time that I sip this tea again I come back to Steepster and I change the score. I started in 86 now it is 96. Love xxxxxx

It was a great tea! Very refreshing for a black tea in my opinion, all the citrus really made it different from most black teas I’ve had. Delightfully mellow in that regard.

This is my first Harney & sons tea!! Exciting! I saw they were selling it at my local bookstore and since the ratings were so good and they were almost out of stock I could not resist getting a tin of this yesterday… I’ve been meaning to order from their site for quite a while but shipping to Canada is too expensive :(

So this was great as my NYE tea while I was waiting for midnight. I’m not a fan of berry teas usually but this one is not too artificial and may very well change my mind. It reminds me of St Petersburg by Kusmi teas which reminds me that I should add some Kusmi to my cupboard… They are perfect for winter, maybe some Prince Vladimir or that new Tsarevna one which has such a beautiful tin… Anyway, happy new year fellow steepsterites!! :D

An average black with an okay flavor – aftertaste isn’t that great.