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drank Ma Passion by Nina's Paris
871 tasting notes

I have way to many open teas in my house. I have been trying to drink the open ones before I open the new ones. But I need variety. So I decided to give this one a try, it sounds (and smells) delicious.

The dry and brewed tea smell like sweet candied citrus. Like sweet grapefruit. The tea also tastes delicious. There is citrus tastes of both grapefruit and orange. It is sweet and not tart or sour. The marigold really blends well with the citrus and also dampens it a bit so it is not tart or overly sweet, and it tastes very smooth. I can taste the smooth black tea base but it is not overpowering. It is not very strong so seems like a good afternoon blend, but I am sure it would be good any time of the day.

Very good blend. But I think all Nina’s Paris blends are great. I haven’t had a bad one yet. Someone made a comment in a post or in a tasting not talking about how good teas from Paris are. I agree.

Edit: So having this again today because it is sooooo good. I started thinking today, this is not so much grapefruit/orange. So I looked on the package and the package says Ma Passion with ingredients of apricot, peach and vanilla. Now I don’t think that is right because I am definitely not tasting that. So I looked it up on the Nina’s Paris site and it says it is flavoured to be passionfruit but I cant find any ingredients. It definitely tastes like passionfruit today. I wonder if that was the citrus I was tasting yesterday that I confused for sweet grapefruit. It could have been power of suggestion that I thought grapefruit as that is what the steepster description says. Whatever the ingredients, it is delicious.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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I am a lifetime tea lover.

I did foray into the world of coffee for a period of time, but I returned to my true love. I still, however, enjoy a good cup of java.

My all time favorite tea is Earl Grey, which I drink every morning, the stronger the bergamot the better. I definitely prefer natural oil of bergamot to artificial flavouring.

I mostly like black and dark oolong teas. My current favs are Fujian blacks, Keemun and Assams, and Wuyi oolongs. I gravitate towards anything with lychee in it. I also drink a lot of herbal blends but am wary of hibiscus. I do not favour mate, or pu’erh tea, although I have found a few blends that I like. (I so badly want to like straight pu’erh tea but it all tastes gross to me. I keep trying though). Rooibos, green and white teas fall somewhere in the middle. I find myself gravitating towards heavily roasted oolongs and teas from Paris/France based companies.

I love iced teas and cold brews.

My current tea goal is to make the perfect cup of chai from scratch – almost there…I think.

I am in love with the whole experience of tea.

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