Hello all!
I’m here to ask for advice, I grew up in Sweden but I now live in France, and I haven’t been drinking tea since my student days (I the northern woods) really. So off I go and buy tea here in France and it’s just really mediocre. I mean tea-shop weighted tea, not supermarket tea.
I’m fairly confident the water temp is okay and so on, but less or more tea, the cup just tastes like I used old no longer very potent tea.
It’s like the fourth time in a bunch of years I’m trying.
A french family member drinks a lot of tea (she even have this fancy water boiler with exact temperatures, a gift because she drinks so much tea), and it’s always old tea bags in a big box, and they too if course has that hay-taste/no more “tea” in them, taste. Are the french tea illiterate or am I just unlucky?
I agree with the other commenters, I have been a bit disappointed by the French tea shop quality.
Locally, after having tasted a variety of local tea shops, I resorted to buying at Palais des Tes. Marriage Frères is really good in my opinion if you have a way of getting them.
I bought mariage frères but that was like 15 years ago so I discarded it in my mind, will try out again because it was very good!