Fruits d'Alsace

Tea type
Black Fruit Blend
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Apricot, Berry, Cherry, Fruity, Plum, Stonefruit, Tea, Vanilla, Smooth, Sweet, Chocolate, Medicinal, Raisins, Alcohol, Malt, Dried Fruit, Musty, Wood, Earth, Peach, Berries, Jam, Smoke
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by SimplyJenW
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 15 sec 3 g 13 oz / 381 ml

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  • “Today is a day to drink teas I like, I’ve decided, and after a long morning of stress and work, I’m going to take a moment with fruits D’ alsace, a much enjoyed tea that I’ve neglected for a...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This is one of the samples sent to me by Russel Allyn of Harney and Sons. This is actually a tea I already had in my cupboard, so I am going to gift this sample out to someone wanting to try it! I...” Read full tasting note
  • “Ok, epic fail here. and I don’t even think it’s the tea, necessarily. Last night, I decided to go buck wild and do a cold-brew of this. First attempt at a cold brew ever. No one was going to stop...” Read full tasting note
  • “Cold brew of this one tonight as well. I think I prefer it hot to be honest. Th cold brew just seemed to flatten the flavours and make it less appealing to me. Still a nice tea, but not as...” Read full tasting note
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From Harney & Sons

Inspired by the delicious Alsatian cuisine of Chef Jean Joho, this is a dessert tea with the flavors of the tree fruits of that region of France: apricots, cherries and plums.

Details:
Chef Jean Joho, formerly of Alsace and now of Chicago and Las Vegas fame, asked Mike to do a new dessert tea in 2011. This tea is inspired by fruits found in many Alsatian desserts. Many do love its bold fruity flavors. Mike describes it as " Paris on steroids".

Dry Leaves:
China Black is the base of this tea, which is combined with bits of dried cherries.

Liquor:
The liquor of this tea is a lighter brown because of the addition of the cherries to the tea leaves.

Aroma:
When you smell this tea you will feel like you are in an orchard because of the strong scents of cherry and plum.

Caffeine Level:
Caffeinated

Body:
This tea has a medium body and a taste of fresh fruit lingers in your mouth.

Flavors:
This tea is fruity with plum and cherry flavors and a trace of vanilla.

Brewing Time:
4 to 5 minutes

Brewing Temp:
212° Fº

About Harney & Sons View company

Since 1983 Harney & Sons has been the source for fine teas. We travel the globe to find the best teas and accept only the exceptional. We put our years of experience to work to bring you the best Single-Estate teas, and blends beyond compare.

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54 tasting notes

I have had this one in my cupboard forever. It is certainly a nice tea, nothing wrong with it. The black base is smooth, strong but not bitter and I definitely taste the fruits. Maybe I need to…..?add sugar…..?try it plain…?add in some frothed milk……I like it well enough, but not sure i find it very remarkable….. Well, I have a tin, so will get the chance to try it plenty more times, plenty more ways……trying to drink as much tea as possible while I clean house and await a FedEx delivery…..(not tea unfortunately)……..

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30 tasting notes

Cold brewed for a day and a half. Added a teensy tiny bit of simple syrup (like a tablespoon to all 32oz).

Delicate, yet flavorful.

This smells so good in the tin, but hot-brews up iffy for me. Cold-brewing, on the other hand, winner!

Flavors: Apricot, Cherry, Peach, Plum, Stonefruit

Preparation
Iced 8 min or more 6 tsp 32 OZ / 946 ML

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Wonderful tart black cherry flavor; reminds me of black forest cake – add a little cocoa or dark chocolate, and it would taste exactly like black forest cake. I really enjoy that the cherry is not artificial, and there is no almond flavor as is common with most cherry flavorings. Just a rich authentic cherry with black tea.

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 45 sec

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152 tasting notes

The fruit taste of plum, cherry, and apricot blend well with this tea. As a hot tea it is a little sweet for my taste. As an iced tea it is one of my favorites, it is sweet and fruity and does not need anything added to it to make it a sweet iced tea. I would give it a score of 70 for hot and 90 for iced.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 45 sec

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1629 tasting notes

Meh. I won’t rate this one because I think the flavor has disappeared. I got this as a sample ina ziplock bag a long time ago. This didnt need any sugar or additives. It is not bitter and brews medium brown.

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2892 tasting notes

First, a very overdue thanks to Lexie Aleah for this sample (shame on me for taking so long)!

Next, it’s just “plum” luscious. The immediate sensory snapshot that accompanied the first sip was one of those dark 19th century still life oil paintings with a fruit bowl, like this one:

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RF8

As to the flavor (and the scent, which is equally strong), it’s just a sweet and lovely melange of plummy, dark cherry, peachy, grapey fruit punch—no tartness, nothing standing out, including the tea base; everything playing nicely together. This cup is not going to last long.

ashmanra

This makes a fabulous sweet tea for summer.

gmathis

Ooh, I’ll bet it does!

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Advent tea
This was pleasant and mildly fruity. More like a fruit blend than any specific fruit. A mellow black base, with no bitterness or astringency. It makes for an enjoyable advent tea!

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This is one of the best teas I have had from Harney & Sons so far. The flavor is a wonderful combination of three juicy stone fruits: Cherry, plum and apricot. The two predominating flavors is the cherry and the plum. The apricot is more subdued but it is there and it adds a nutty flavor in the background. There is also a trace of vanilla and a deeper berry flavor that reminds me of a dark berry – maybe blackberry or black currant. But it does not say anything about those flavors on the tin. The fruit flavor in this tea actually reminds me of a Milbona yogurt you can buy in Lidl that is called “Fruits of the Forest”.

The tea flavor itself is hard to detect because of the strong fruit aroma but you can taste that it is a high-quality Chinese black tea with no bitterness or astringency. The tea is medium-bodied.

I highly recommend this tea, especially if you are a fan of fruity black teas.

Dry leaves, aroma:
Cherry and plum with a hint of apricot and vanilla. Berries. Very sweet and fruity smelling.

Dry leaves, appearance:
Black Chinese tea leaves with chunks of dried apricots and dried cherries.

Liquor:
Medium to dark brown.

Packaging:
4 oz. loose tea tin.

Flavors: Apricot, Berry, Cherry, Fruity, Plum, Stonefruit, Tea, Vanilla

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 2 g 9 OZ / 275 ML

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TTB #12

This is nice…smooth, sweet, and fruity. Honestly, I wasn’t 100% sure exactly what kind of fruit this was supposed to be until I read the description, but I do sort of get cherry from it now that I know I’m supposed to. :) Nothing super special or memorable, but I enjoyed it!

Flavors: Fruity, Smooth, Stonefruit, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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From TTB 2019/2020.

I’ve been loving Harney & Sons lately, so I was super excited to see this one included in the TTB. There is a light aroma of stone fruits in the dry blend, and it becomes even lighter once steeped. I’m not getting very much flavor really, so that’s unfortunate. I think doubling up on the dry leaf might have made a difference. I’m also tasting the tiniest bit of chocolate so perhaps that’s the base? I would try this again, but perhaps prepared differently.

Flavors: Chocolate, Stonefruit

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 7 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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