Kusmi Tea is the absolutely most hip, trendy, branché tea in Paris right now, and has been for a few years although the company has existed since 1867. The packaging is what does it - super cool, fresh gorgeous colours for each different tea, hippy, Indian type graphic images, sumptous traditional label. This tea is in all the hip places and billed to tourists as something to take home as a souvenir. It's presented in small boxes, very small boxes, small cute round tins and large cute round tins. No hip household should be without a selection looking good in the kitchen.
Well, my household evidently isn't hip as we had only one tin of their Love Tea received in a goody bag after a trendy party and I threw it out because actually I didn't like it.
So I wondered when I received a wonderful care package from an American friend, who has her finger on the pulse, it has to be said, and in this thoughtful gift was a box of Kusmi Detox Tea in a vibrant deep peppermint coloured box. I expected that it might be like the Love Tea, a bit strong, not much flavour (I hoped it wasn't), I expected it would taste the same as the other cheaper brands and was all about the publicity. I didn't expect it to live up to the hype.
But, dear readers, it DID live up to it's reputation for popularity. It was thoroughly delicious, light, refreshing, almost like sipping nectar. The tea bag never outstayed it's welcome no matter how long it was steeped for as the tea never became bitter or unpleasant tasting. I could not stop drinking this delicate blend, I could have drunk it all day and sometimes did. And now it's all gone:-( The lemon grass sometimes tasted curious, slightly like garlic, strangely enough, but not always (mabye it was to do with what I'd already eaten). The tea is, like it says on the label, a delicious blend of maté, green tea and lemon grass. The blend is perfect, not too strong and just so refreshingly slightly zingy on the tongue.
If you're not converted to a green tea habit and think it's a good thing, splash out and try this one, it may convince you!
And the pleasure of looking at the pretty box and feeling the springy string attached to the pretty tag attached to the luxurious muslin tea bag, where you can see the generous helping of tea. It's almost a sensual pleasure to use this tea.
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Packaging - gorgeous, a pleasure to look at
Taste - best so far
Price - oups, here's the glich 11,80€ for 20 bags
+ taste, packaging, pleasure to use
- the price and it's not organic, little plastic bag holding tea bags could maybe have been more ecologically friendly - in brown paper maybe
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