/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My dad recently switched from coffee to drinking earl grey tea only. Wanting to encourage this I decided to get him a box of Mariage Frères for Christmas. It arrived today and came with a little sampler of their thé a l'opera, pic related. I'm usually one for gong fu style brewing, but decided to write a nice review of this sampler.

The smell notes are very clearly fruits and florals, I think closest to rose and strawberry. I let it infuse for the recommended 4 minutes and the taste is not bitter at all. The vanilla note is clearer when you drink, as opposed to just smell. Overall I'd say this is a nice blend, albeit too sweet for my personal tastes. I'm sure my friends that usually have tea with sugar would find plainly this to be really good.