We don't know when or if this item will be available.
“S&V Advent Day 15! The tea base is a little plant-like, not as hearty as I would like. There’s some bergamot here as well, but it’s all a bit bland compared to other EG-inspired blends S&V...” Read full tasting note
“Simpson & Vail Advent 2025 – Day #15 This looks like it will be tasting note 4,444 for me here. And I am the only one on Steepster to have written a note for this particular tea. Sad, as it’s...” Read full tasting note
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821 and spent his first sixteen years among the orphans, criminals, and asylum patients with whom his father worked. In 1846, Poor Folk gave the young Dostoyevsky his first taste of literary fame, but it is Crime and Punishment and The Idiot that cemented his legacy. His works examined the complicated relationship between ideology, political climate, and personal upbringing and how they each affect a person’s psyche. His novels serve as a precursor to existentialism, and they are pivotal in the Russian Symbolism Movement.
Tea plays an important symbolic role in Dostoyevsky’s writing, where it often serves as a comforting staple in an otherwise chaotic world. In Poor Folk, he writes that ?all the world needs tea? and then later the main character reminisces about a simpler time when he could be ?sitting in [their] little parlour at tea with [his] parents in the familiar little parlour where everything was snug and warm!? The Russian samovar provides warmth and a central meeting place equivalent to the watercooler. Our Fyodor Dostoyevsky tea blend is an approximation of a typical Russian blend of the time and it recreates the flavors that he and his characters would have savored. Sip along with Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, Rodion Raskolnikov, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky himself with this delicious blend.
This Russian style tea brews to a bright copper cup with a mellow, flavorful, medium-bodied taste and a lemon-citrus aftertaste.
Ingredients: Black teas from India, Sri Lanka, China and Taiwan and bergamot oil.
Company description not available.
Simpson & Vail Advent 2025 – Day #15
This looks like it will be tasting note 4,444 for me here. And I am the only one on Steepster to have written a note for this particular tea. Sad, as it’s a good one. A brisk and bright tea, perfect for this frigid day. Finally, an advent tea with some heft. I have tried this tea before, in S&V’s author box. But I was glad to see it today. A tasty mix of black teas, with a great flavored bergamot. I’d probably like this tea without the bergamot too, but this is good bergamot, so I’m glad it’s in the cup. Raising the rating from 82.
Steep #1 // 1 3/4 teaspoons for a full mug // 22 minutes after boiling // 2 minute steep
Steep #2 // just boiled // 4 minute steep
