Mariage Feres

2004 marks the 150 years anniversary of Mariage Freres as a tea merchant. More importantly, it offers a dazzling selection from the green teas of Chinese provinces, blue teas of Taiwan, Darjeeling of Himalaya, to black teas of Australia and Zimbabwe.

The Mariage Feres store has a sprawling tea house on the second floor where you can try everything on the seven page tea menu with items such as TA1109, Brumes d'Himalaya - a second flush tea harvested between May and June with a rating of SFTGFOP-1 (Super Fine Tippy Golden Orange Pekoe and "1" denotes the best of the grade) and TA2212, The Jaune de Cinq Dynasties – a Hunan province specialty from China where tea leaves stand up vertically in the water and import an lingering fragrance with a gentle yet voluptuous mouth-feel.




Mariage Freres is a great place to try different teas, to read about European tea history, and, inevitably, to leave with many cans of teas. Good thing that tea is not heavy.

Details
Mariage Feres
Rive Gauche
13 rue des Grands-Augustins
Paris 6e
T: 01 40 51 82 50
www.mariagefreres.com


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