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drank Fruits d'Alsace by Harney & Sons
188 tasting notes

Another tea from another day… seems I’ve not had time to make tasting notes this week.

Dry leaf this one smells sweet and vanilla w/a bit of fruitiness.

Steeped I get a nice black base with a fruit flavor- can’t distinguish the fruit, and maybe that’s why I like this one. When it comes to flavored teas, Hubby goes for some of the fruit flavored blends, especially blueberry or raspberry, and I tend to go more for spice or dessert teas. This one comes through as rich and fruity, a touch of sugar makes the fruit come through even more.

Since I really enjoyed this one, I asked Hubby about it since he had recently had a cup, we generally don’t agree on what we like, he told me he thought it was one that we should stock in our cupboard.. Wow.. we agree on another tea!

Thanks MissB for sending a generous sample of this our way!

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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37 yr old wife and mother who left her day job to take care of our son. Now running a property management business with my hubby.

I grew up on Lipton -hot w/milk & sugar, Lipton iced w/fresh spearmint and sugar, and Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime … Don’t criticize.

I came across Good Earth Original Sweet and Spicy out of chance and it spurred my interested in trying new teas because it was a flavor I had never had before in a tea. I’m now new to the world of loose leaf teas and looking forward to learning what I like as I journey through some new flavors. Hubby has always enjoyed the occasional cup when we’ve been out and about at restaurants.. now we will find out what good teas are really all about! On with the adventures!

Still relatively new to loose leaf, but I’m learning… Coconut, cinnamon, chai, chocolate, mint, & pineapple are just a few of the flavors I enjoy. I have found that I can do green teas so long as there are other flavors as well and it isn’t the primary flavor. I have only found 1 rooibos blend that was too woodsy for me, most of the time the base is hidden or blends well enough w/flavored versions for my liking. I’m beginning to enjoy fruit teas more and more. I occasionally like a straight black tea.

Hubby likes milder flavors, any base, berry flavors, sweet aromas, sometimes tart, and or floral, and chocolate to my surprise! Almost the opposite of me.. go figure!

My 8 year old just took interest and loves root beer.. so far Butterbeer is a hit, but we haven’t tried any root beer or cola teas yet.. soon thanks to the Marvelous MissB for sending some samples. He enjoyed Winter Nog (Della Terra) recently, but turned away something else I gave him.. darn if I can’t remember now what it was!

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