Another option for a Chinese New Year tea: Mariage Frères Year of the Pig tea (from the Thé des Signes / Asian zodiac collection) with green tea, rooibos, goji berry and rose. €26.
Top 10 Fall Fragranced Things 2018
While growing up in the hot and steamy South, I loved autumn and its coolness, and you’d think that after Seattle’s oven-like temperatures and dangerously smoky skies this summer, I’d be looking forward to autumn. Wrong. I’m already counting the weeks till spring and wishing I could move to Buenos Aires for the next six months and enjoy spring and summer all over again. Perhaps I’ve changed (emotionally?) but fall feels sad this year; I reckon it’ll be dark, sodden, the beginning of The End — the interminable winter months.
This year I’m going to avoid sentimentality, Japanese death poems, lethargic piano music and drama (I won’t be stoking my self-pity). I’ll tackle my negative autumn (and winter) moods with fun things…
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From the French Summer Tea collection at Mariage Frères, Violetta: "...a new black tea, flowery like a Parisian folly, heady like the summer in which to drink it – iced – all season long. Floral notes, fresh and sensual: white flowers and spring time violet, clear and sprightly." 160g in a black glass jar with measuring cap and a pack of envelope filters, €40.
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Year of the Dog tea from Mariage Frères: "...a wonderful organic imperial white tea made of beautiful silver needles perfectly married to the precious notes of organic citrus. Goji berries, signature of the collection THÉ DES SIGNES, bring their fruity notes and revitalizing effects to this gourmand blend. Lime green in colour, a beautiful pagoda shaped tin houses this adorable THÉ DES SIGNES – YEAR OF THE DOG." 30g for €26.
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Mariage Frères Tea Jelly, in Earl Grey Impérial: "Created by the Mariage family in the 19th century, these collection of tea jellies, manufactured in the traditional way in copper pans, are a wonderful accompaniment to toast, brioches and scones. The fruit of this ancestral knowledge, this tea jelly, flavoured with the greatest bergamot, combines its subtlety with the splendour of the best Darjeeling teas." €8.50 for 240g.