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Dear America, I think Mariage Freres loves you, to make you such a breakfast tea.

Dear Wedding Impérial, you are fired, sorry.

I was smelling all the MF breakfast mixes, and it is interesting – I can not imagine some of those blends really working as a breakfast mix. This was the no competition win – a chocolate breakfast mix. A malted chocolate with vanilla breakfast mix. I just made it, added some sugar and a smidgeon of milk, oh my this is indeed a lovely tea.

I think there are some honey notes as well, and this is not a very strong breakfast mix IMO which is fine with me (though a lot of the other MF breakfast mixes seemed even less likely to be strong breakfast mixes). But oh so lovely.

Not kidding about Wedding Impérial now being put off rotation.

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yyz

sounds good!

Sil

now i need to try this.. i love wedding imperial!

cteresa

yyz, it is good! Sil, I like wedding imperial very much, it was my very first MF tea (and its tin, lol, already been refilled and was now the tin I just refilled, after very well steamed and aired, with this very one). But I find it a tricky tea to brew just right and somehow this american breakfast has supplanted it. Mind you, French Breakfast also smelled heavenly.

And a very different, more afternoon like, chocolate tea I also love is Thé-o-dor´s Thé du Loup.

Excelsior

It it similar to CHA THAI also from Mariage? I loved their Mt. Cameroon they used to carry maybe 25 years ago. Since they had difficulty in the supply, the manager of Mariage steered me towards CHA THAI which was very similar with it’s chocolate malty taste.

cteresa

Excelsior, I had not even heard of cha thai till your comment (though I think it is going on the shopping list). Sounds lovely indeed and am putting it on shopping list.

Cameroon tea, ah that sounds interesting indeed! I wonder if stocks of african teas have gotten more difficult or if it was a marketing decision. On the MF book there is for example photos where you can see tins of Mozambican tea (Gurue, I think) but that must have been an old photo, they had none on stock, so maybe they need the space for new blends (or decided against).

But thank you for the tip about Cha thai, sounds precisely like something I want to try. One of these days!

Excelsior

Remind me to send you some Mariage Freres Darjeeling Tea in 2014, Spring. I am hopeful Mariage will have some better Darjeelings next year. I was really disappointed with the Mariage 2013 Spring Darjeelings and although I have a lot of tea, I don’t have anything that may change your opinion of Darjeeling teas. Even the First Flush Margaret’s Hope was marginal at best.

cteresa

That is a very kind offer, thank you so much! Not something I can say no to, I think if I am ever going to get Darjeelings you would be the perfect guide.

Ysaurella

this one is in my shopping list for a while ! good to know it is really a good one

cteresa

Ysaurella, I would be glad to send you some, so you can try before buying!

cteresa

And Excelsior, same offer applies to you as well!

Ysaurella

you’re awesome :)

cteresa

Nope, just a tea consumption enabler! I will write you about it, give me a couple days!

cteresa

Excelsior, just to thank you for the recommendation for Cha Thai, you were precisely right, I bought some, just had my first cup and it´s wonderful. I think I am quite high from its caffeine punch and will probably do many supernatural strength feats throughout the day, but wow what a wonderful tea. Thank you!

Sil

Makes me think i need to retry the cha thai with milk and pay attention to it more :)

cteresa

Sil, cha thai not a fancy delicate afternoon tea. It´s not so much about paying attention to it, it´s about being the tea for the right occasion – and that is morning and I added milk and sugar (Sweetener actually) and it was morning and it was wonderful, because the milk and sugar kind of brough out the chocolatey (how is it possible without flavouring?) and malty notes. But do try it like that, when you really need a wake up tea!

Sil

yeah…i never add milk and sugar to my teas so i found this one to be good but not wonderful when i tried it. I’ll have to try it again before i pass on the rest of this tea to the girls. MissB sent some our way so i got to try it :)

cteresa

Traditionally tea sellers used to sort teas very clearly, not so much into tea type, but into time of the day – even Mariage Freres, at least in the tea chart in the shop does it. At steepster we seem to not pay much attention to that, if a tea is a morning or afternoon tea, and I think we tend to treat all teas as if they were delicate afternoon teas. But not this one (Cha Thai I mean), that is a morning tea indeed! (American Breakfast OTOH despite the name is like an afternoon version of it. maybe…)

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yyz

sounds good!

Sil

now i need to try this.. i love wedding imperial!

cteresa

yyz, it is good! Sil, I like wedding imperial very much, it was my very first MF tea (and its tin, lol, already been refilled and was now the tin I just refilled, after very well steamed and aired, with this very one). But I find it a tricky tea to brew just right and somehow this american breakfast has supplanted it. Mind you, French Breakfast also smelled heavenly.

And a very different, more afternoon like, chocolate tea I also love is Thé-o-dor´s Thé du Loup.

Excelsior

It it similar to CHA THAI also from Mariage? I loved their Mt. Cameroon they used to carry maybe 25 years ago. Since they had difficulty in the supply, the manager of Mariage steered me towards CHA THAI which was very similar with it’s chocolate malty taste.

cteresa

Excelsior, I had not even heard of cha thai till your comment (though I think it is going on the shopping list). Sounds lovely indeed and am putting it on shopping list.

Cameroon tea, ah that sounds interesting indeed! I wonder if stocks of african teas have gotten more difficult or if it was a marketing decision. On the MF book there is for example photos where you can see tins of Mozambican tea (Gurue, I think) but that must have been an old photo, they had none on stock, so maybe they need the space for new blends (or decided against).

But thank you for the tip about Cha thai, sounds precisely like something I want to try. One of these days!

Excelsior

Remind me to send you some Mariage Freres Darjeeling Tea in 2014, Spring. I am hopeful Mariage will have some better Darjeelings next year. I was really disappointed with the Mariage 2013 Spring Darjeelings and although I have a lot of tea, I don’t have anything that may change your opinion of Darjeeling teas. Even the First Flush Margaret’s Hope was marginal at best.

cteresa

That is a very kind offer, thank you so much! Not something I can say no to, I think if I am ever going to get Darjeelings you would be the perfect guide.

Ysaurella

this one is in my shopping list for a while ! good to know it is really a good one

cteresa

Ysaurella, I would be glad to send you some, so you can try before buying!

cteresa

And Excelsior, same offer applies to you as well!

Ysaurella

you’re awesome :)

cteresa

Nope, just a tea consumption enabler! I will write you about it, give me a couple days!

cteresa

Excelsior, just to thank you for the recommendation for Cha Thai, you were precisely right, I bought some, just had my first cup and it´s wonderful. I think I am quite high from its caffeine punch and will probably do many supernatural strength feats throughout the day, but wow what a wonderful tea. Thank you!

Sil

Makes me think i need to retry the cha thai with milk and pay attention to it more :)

cteresa

Sil, cha thai not a fancy delicate afternoon tea. It´s not so much about paying attention to it, it´s about being the tea for the right occasion – and that is morning and I added milk and sugar (Sweetener actually) and it was morning and it was wonderful, because the milk and sugar kind of brough out the chocolatey (how is it possible without flavouring?) and malty notes. But do try it like that, when you really need a wake up tea!

Sil

yeah…i never add milk and sugar to my teas so i found this one to be good but not wonderful when i tried it. I’ll have to try it again before i pass on the rest of this tea to the girls. MissB sent some our way so i got to try it :)

cteresa

Traditionally tea sellers used to sort teas very clearly, not so much into tea type, but into time of the day – even Mariage Freres, at least in the tea chart in the shop does it. At steepster we seem to not pay much attention to that, if a tea is a morning or afternoon tea, and I think we tend to treat all teas as if they were delicate afternoon teas. But not this one (Cha Thai I mean), that is a morning tea indeed! (American Breakfast OTOH despite the name is like an afternoon version of it. maybe…)

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Inconstant tea drinker – I mostly drink tea when not too hot. I hang around steepster much more frequently in (northern hemisphere) cold season. Experimenting with cold steeping, for summer.

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I like all sorts of tea, flavoured and unflavoured, though I am picky.

I am one of those people who actually loves Lapsang Souchong. I am not crazy about Earl Grey, in general. I don´t quite get Darjeeling teas, but I am exploring.

I like rooibos, though not all bases. I loathe hibiscus. I do not like fennel/liquorice/anise in blends or teas with chicory. I am picky about what I consider true cinnamon.

As you can probably tell from my cupboard, the brands I find more interesting right now are Mariage Fréres and Thé-o-Dor.

I am always willing to try anything new. I am now particularly interested in single origins.

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