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Thé au Tiare (Tea Flavored with Tiare) from Manutea Tahiti

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Thé au Tiare (Tea Flavored with Tiare)

Black Tea by Manutea Tahiti

The “Vahine” choose the very first hours of the morning to pick the “Tiare” flower, as this is the very precise moment of day when this Tahitian flower produces its fullest aroma. The macerations obtained by our flower pickers through jealously kept old recipes make it possible for us to offer you our tea flavored with Tiare of Tahiti.

1 Tasting Note

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We were given this tea as a gift from a friend who had taken their honeymoon in Tahiti; we can only presume the tin we were given was very old, as it had almost no aroma upon opening (from all accounts, the Tiare flower’s aroma is extremely strong). The tea is itself a Ceylon, and while being a serviceable morning tea it is nothing distinctive in and of itself, though it is warmly smooth and pretty enjoyable, even at this age.

This note should not be taken very seriously, as obviously we got a bad sample; the foundation seems fine on this tea so perhaps a full-flavored cup would be something special, we simply can’t tell.