Thé du Hammam

Day 7 of Advent Calendar

This is a light green that blossom further with 4 or 5 minute steep. Very mild tea with a soft flower bouquet and type of sweetness. The color is light. Described as green tea and flowers with red fruit. If you like a milder, slightly sweet green tea, this is the cup for you.

French Friday! This was the packet I grabbed from the sampler bag today, courtesy of Dustin. Thanks Dustin!

The dry leaf is reminding me of strawberry cream candies, like the hard disc candy with the pink stripes, and a bit floral, leaning rosy. Steeped 2.8g of leaf in 350ml of 175F water for 3 minutes.

Steeped up, I’m getting the same strawberries, cream, and rose aroma, but also something sort of biscuity/graham-like. On the tongue, though, the flavors aren’t popping for me much. I’m getting a dry hay-like flavor from the green base, and while I can clearly smell the strawberry and rose, I don’t really taste either. There is a subtle sweetness at the end of the sip, but it isn’t distinct. It isn’t strong, but I am tasting that slight graham cracker note during the sip.

It smells so inviting, but the taste just isn’t living up to the aroma.

The scent is lovely

I do not like tasting flowers. As I have said in past reviews, I wish I liked tasting flowers; it seems like the kind of fairy-tale loveliness that appeals to my soul. However floral flavors always make me feel like I got some shampoo in my mouth. This blend, despite the addition of rose and orange blossom, does not taste like flowers to me. The first two brews definitely tasted like fruit. On the third steep, more of a sweetening of the grassiness of the green tea. I love sweet things and I love fruit – particularly berries, so this tea is definitely one of my favorite flavored green teas from Palais des Thés.

Palais Des Thes Advent Calendar Day 12:
I was super excited for this one once I read the description.
The dry sachet smells lovely very fruity and floral. This would be a nice perfume scent hehe. I can’t smell the green tea at all.
I did end up overstepping it slightly as I forgot to set the timer so there was some astringency but it wasn’t too bad.
I really enjoyed this cup the red fruit taste works really nicely with the rose. It has an almost strawberry candy flavor to it. The floral notes and the green tea base work nicely together as well. I had really wanted to try the European red fruit teas and at least based off of this tea I really enjoyed it! I would definitely consider purchasing some of this. I think that this would also be really good on a black tea base and it appears that they do have a black tea version of this as well. This has been the Advent tea that I have most enjoyed thus far.

Most of friends love it. It’s very flavourful et sweet, yet refreshing. Can be also drunk cool / iced. Good afternoon tea.

Sipdown (606)!

Oh wow – this is very much that SUPER generic European “red fruit” flavour that just tastes like generic red fruit, maybe with something peach-y in addition and some vague floral undertones? It’s not bad but it just tastes like SO MANY other teas that come out of European tea companies like Palais des Thes, Dammann Freres, etc. It’s such a generic flavour(ing). Plus, this is a little bit bitter from the green tea base – so it doesn’t even have a leg up on that whole ‘genre’ of tea flavours. It’s fine for now; not something that will stick out in my mind months, or likely even days, from now…

Palais des Thés Advent Calendar – Day 12 (from November backlog)

This seems quite bland to me…

The base tea is generic and grassy with no real personality. I guess there’s flavoring? Is it strawberry, or maybe orange? Seems a little bubblegum or candylike. There’s a floral note as well.

Overall, I’m finding this to be very blah…

This is probably my favorite Palais des Thes yet. It is light as their teas seem to be, with floral and fruity notes that complement but don’t overwhelm. I can’t say exactly what all those were, though – it is one difficulty I tend to have with their teas, where a lot of flavors are not identifiable. Regardless, I enjoyed it!

I cold steeped this to see if it made it any more interesting. The verdict: not so much. It’s green, it’s fruity and it doesn’t really stand out to me. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I wish LPDT didn’t have such a large minimum for their teas, which I have found to be mostly a miss for my palate.