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Advent day…. what are we on? 9? This tea smells like red fruit. Strange that we can have a sense of what color fruit might be based on smell when we can’t pinpoint exactly which fruit it is. The steeping instructions suggested a lighter temp, which I went with, but I wonder if I’d get more flavor from a higher temp. I can taste the strawberries and a little bit of raspberries now that I’ve read which fruits are in there. I thought that adding a creamer would heighten the vanilla, but it kind of dulled the flavors in the cup instead. I’ll have to try a resteep at a higher temp.
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I got some of this in a long ago swap with Barbara. I was having so much fun trying the The O Dor brand while traveling last March, but when I got home I was distracted by all the teas I had purchased in San Francisco and the swap teas got tucked away.
When brewed and in my clear glass cup, this tea looks like a giant piece of amber with the light filtering through it. The smell is red and fruity, but I don’t know that I’d be able to peg the scent as strawberry if I hadn’t read the description. On my first few sips I was met by a quick sweetness followed by a touch of bitter. Perhaps I steeped it too long or the water was too hot. The black base is nice and tastes familiar, but I’m not yet able to identify them. The base also masks the flavor of the fruit a bit at the moment, so I’m adding some sugar. Sometimes adding sugar makes certain flavors stand out more or taste more natural and sometimes everything still tastes the same, only sweeter. This time it tastes the same. I’m getting a slight smokey aftertaste mingling with some strawberry. It is pleasant, but unless I’m able to get better results with different brewing parameters, this tea won’t make it on my must purchase list.
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sipdown! (139) I have not been doing well with drinking up my teas to be good when my orders start coming in. I’m hoping that I’ll get a chance over the next couple of weekend. Should be doable since i’ve got release testing to do this weekend and next.
This one could grow on me..i still like une autre idee more but this was tastier tonight so that’s good to note. Thanks again cteresa!
this will seem a strange comment on tea.
i would like to offer my benedition of peace to an old warrior here, sil: nelson mandela died 2 hours ago. he was 95.
given the name of the tea it seemed appropriate.
Not strange at all. It’s hard to believe that he’s not in this world anymore
agreed. wherever he is i hope it’s peaceful.
Your killing me with all these o dor teas!!!! Making me go mad! I want what I can’t have!!!!! Ahhhhh
Lol
another tea from the lovely cteresa though i must admit i’m glad there aren’t’t many more since between her and ysaurella/dinosara i’m looking at moving to europe so i can drink the teas i want, when i want!
I actually thought that i would like this more than i did. I am not a rooibos hater – i have both enjoyed it and not, depending no how it’s blended. In this particular instance the rooibos is wonderfully blended with the almond and red berry flavours….and that’s slightly the problem. I’m pretty certain that the RED BERRY flavour is just not something i generally like in french teas. I like ONE specific berry flavour and when there are multiple, i don’t enjoy it nearly as much. Now, having said that, i still drank my cup insanely fast and loved every moment of it…but it’s not as deliciously amazing to me as i’d hoped it would be for want of more non black blends in my cupboard haha
Thank you again cteresa
if i were to swallow a few socks would you take me as carry-on luggage?
this is really a very lovely rooibos and I am not a rooibos fan ! come come Sil for a French tea tour ! and if JustJames is still hungry after his socks dinner he can try a Mariage Frères Brunch …all the food is made with tea, fantastic
hahaha that would be AMAZING ysaurella…i will for sure let you know if i make it out to france!
james – i hate socks. ;)
drink drink drinking all the teas. I figure if i miss out on my goals, i should at least try to work on my oldest teas to try and get my cupboard back to being 6-8months old. I’m nearly there – only about 5 teas are older than that but the fact that they exist is enough for me to want to stop hoarding them :) so this one. still delicious and still worth drinking even this old.
A 6-8 month old cupboard sounds like a dream.
An aspiration. Sil, you inspirer you.
i was doing it for a while there….then i brought home 4kg from Paris
I doubt I’ll ever have that. Maybe a year if I’m lucky
The problem with a lot of my older teas is that they’re all favourite teas that are either hard to get (like The O Dor) or the company has since closed down like Butiki. So I know I should be drinking them but I know that once they’re gone they’re probably gone forever. :(
i wanted delicious this afternoon and so i pulled this one out. I don’t know what else to say about this tea. I love that i can taste teh base while still getting to roll around in the flavours. happiness is this tea, back in my cupboard.
I have been dreaming about this tea. Cteresa and i swapped a year ago? And this has been on my wish list since then. I’ve searched for suppliers in the US and Canada to no avail and so when i had the chance to restock this one, 200g came home with me. For me, this is the perfect chocolate/hazelnut tea. You can still taste the base…the flavours are subdued but not so much that you can’t spot them instantly. I was terrified that i’d get this home and hate it…but i don’t. I love it. So thank you again Cteresa for sharing this one with me so long ago!
(on a side note for those looking for the o dor….they are apparently opening 4? more retailers in the US and are looking for this first in Canada. I had the opportunity to speak with one of their distributor folks at the launch of their tea in paris. She’s supposed to email me a list which i’ll share if she sends it along.)
Did they say where in Canada?
They’re not sure yet. If she sends me the list, i’ll post it on the forums. We joked about ME doing it :)
Did they say where in the US they are opening retail stores?
they did but i don’t remember – but i’ll post the list if she sends it to me. If she doesn’t, i may email the store and ask the woman i spoke with to get the info for me if she can
I would personally like to see them open something in Nassau County or Queens. Much easier for me to get to than Manhattan.
Don’t they ship? I put together a mock cart and it looked like they would.
They do. I just vastly prefer to be able to either GO to the store, or ship within North America. :)
That’s a relief, I’m looking at them next. I don’t see us going to Paris any time soon, since when we go overseas it’s always to Denmark.
oh, so glad you got it! I do love it, as does my family, was trying to restock recently but not much luck. Maybe they will have more resalers here soon as well.
