Dustin Send Message

Advent day 1

This tastes very green Marco Polo like! I’ve had MP black before and aside from fruity vanilla I haven’t been able to ID the individual flavors. This has that and a bright green tea flavor added instead of the depth that black has. It’s nice and very well balanced. I’m on my second steeping of this. I am very much enjoying it, but don’t know that it’s one I’d add to my cupboard especially when I’d have to buy 100g.

This still strikes me as such a weird tea and I love it for that! Such a strange mixture of flavors that somehow work together to make something I can’t quite ID. I get the apples, the lime leaf, the spices and something else. It leans on the side of savory and has a nice finish. I’m not sure if I’d order it again because it’s not one I find myself reaching for often, but I’m enjoying and marveling at each cup I drink.

I recalled loving this tea and was excited to finally get it restocked. Somehow I seemed to have gone wrong with it because I’m not getting the delicious cup I remembered. It was very heavy on the tannins and the acidity sat hard in my stomach. Maybe I had a creamer I liked better than what I have access to now? Maybe I was using different steeping parameters? I’m not sure what the difference is, but I hope I figure it out quickly!

It’s one of those absent minded mornings where I forget to put the steeping basket in my freshly rinsed cup before scooping tea into it and have to sort out what to do.
I think this tea is growing on me already. The coconut adds something really nice to the malty flavor, rounding it out well. Already half way through my cup and thinking about a resteep!

I didn’t realize when I added this to my cart how little tea I’d get. I think it’s only 50g. It has a really rich smoky flavor that I’m not finding overwhelming. It has something light and tart in the sip that I can’t quite pin point. It almost has a sweet yet savory taste. Part of what made me curious about this tea is the tonka bean notes. I’m not exactly sure if it’s flavored with tonka beans or just tastes like it. French translated to English sometimes gets a little choppy. This past year I was able to get my hands on some tonka beans, so I have an idea of the flavor established. The finish definitely tastes like tonka and is a little dry. Overall I’m liking this and am looking forward to sipping more!

Wanted a coconut tea and this one sounded interesting with malty flavors. I need to play around with the steeping times because this turned out malty, but on the side of bitter. The coconut flavor is light, but present. It seems like MF and Damman Freres err on the light side of added flavors, making the taste delicate. It makes it take a few sips for my expectations and senses to adjust. The light coconut flavor balances well with the maltiness. The finish is a nice continuation of the flavors. I don’t know if I’m getting used to the bitter bit I was tasting earlier or if it’s faded with the tea cooling, but it’s mellowed out now. This tea makes me think of a hearty breakfast tea, but with coconut. I’m looking forward to drinking more of this.

This came in the subscription box. It’s probably one I’d be curious about on my own, with the promise of two flavors that work so well together. I want to like this and some cups I like more than others, but it’s flavor is thin compared to other teas I’ve had with these ingredients and has stevia in it which is so distracting. I think I could figure out a way to enjoy this if it wasn’t for the stevia.

I have been enjoying a rose tea recently and decided to pick one to add to my MF order. Gotta maximize the 30 euro shipping fee! I think I chose this out of their selection of rose tea because of the cocoa finish. I should preface this with the fact that I have really bad allergies right now, verging on sinus infection, so my taste buds aren’t at top operating level. The rose in this seemed a bit faint until I got further in the cup. There is a muscat like something that I’m picking up on. A little in the flavor and a little in a slight pucker sensation. This tea leaves my mouth feeling dry after each sip which is true to the way real roses react. So far I’m enjoying this tea, but it isn’t super impressing me. Hoping that will change when my sinuses start behaving.

I really wanted to like this one and I sort of did. The hibiscus was moderate, the blueberry flavor was good. It’s the sweetener that turns me off. I value the ability to sweeten (or not) my tea. I kept going back and forth on if I liked it or not, so it’s landing somewhere in the middle.

Dealing with obnoxious allergies the past couple of days, so I’m a little stuffed up and unable to enjoy this tea to it’s fullest. The maltiness is coming through along with a little astringency that isn’t bad. The warmth is soothing. I feel like I just picked this cup up and now it’s almost gone. I have about one more bottom of the bag powdery serving before this tea is gone from my cupboard too. :/