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?
Tea isn’t very big in France but it is picking up steam, at least in my friend group. So to some extent you might just be unlucky.
There’s three tiers of tea suppliers to me : supermarkets, tea chains (such as Kusmi or Palais des thés) and finally independent tea shops which have the best quality. Which tea shops are “the good ones” will depend on your location though.