My favorite all-time overall tea.  Why?  Well, I suppose because it was blended just for me, based on my Personali-TEA profile at Mad Pots of Tea!

Madam Potts at Mad Pots of Tea offers custom tea blends based on an intricate series of personal questions that helps to determine your taste preferences.  Some of the questions on the form are:

‘Ask your friends to describe you in 3 words’, ‘Where is your favorite vacation spot?’, and ‘Where would your Personali-Tea transport you to?’.

You can read the entire form or request your own Personali-Tea here (click Start Here at the bottom of the page to begin!) At the time of this review, it only costs $25 to create your OWN custom blended Personali-Tea.

As stated on the Mad Pots of Tea website:

I only create custom blends on this site.  My inspiration is YOU! Sure call me crazy, call me Mad — but I believe that what you drink should fit you…to a tea.

I take your personality, your preferences, your essence and use that to design a Signature Blend of tea.
All you need to do is to fill out the PersonaliTEA form and I do the rest.
So don’t be shy when filling it out -  the more information you provide the better.

So after filling out my Personali-Tea form, it only took three weeks for the tea to arrive to my front door – which is amazingly fast considering the time and testing it takes to create such unique and tasty tea blends.  When my tea arrived, I saw that she had named it ‘Fleur de Grey’, the perfect name for this tea!

Mad Pots of Tea describes Fleur de Grey as:

If this tea came to life it’d hang around art museums and read you French poetry. It’s intelligent, creative, and impulsive; fashioned for a professional tea reviewer of similar description. The brassiness of the black tea is softened with floral undertones and sweetened with licorice root and vanilla, for a blend that’s refreshing and meditative.

Ingredients:

Earl Grey black tea (black tea with bergamot flavoring), Lavender, Stevia, Vanilla, Red Clover, Licorice Root, Chrysanthemum

Inspired by:

Flowery, Exotic, Aromatic, Forest, Meadow, Lavender, Vanilla, Europe

The ‘professional tea reviewer’ in that description? Yep that’s me!  WOW!!  I can’t say that I honestly could have thought up any better blend for me than this.  It’s fabulous, it’s fantastic, it’s FREAKING AWESOME!  Now that’s not to say that I’m the only one who would like this blend, in fact Madam Potts herself told me that it was the Personali-Tea that she’s created that is closest to her own tea preferences.

So I know I’m biased when reviewing this one, but let me say that the earl grey is soft but noticable, with heavy topnotes of lavender.  The red clover and Chrysanthemum lend a soft floral touch to the background, while the licorice root and stevia back this up with a strong natural sweet note.  Vanilla brings all of the flavors together and softens it further.

I love this tea so much that it’s the ONLY tea I’ve drank for 4 days straight.  I’m already out and have ordered more!  If you want to taste what a tea reviewer sees as an ideal blended tea, purchase Fleur de Grey – available in loose leaf, bagged tea, or samples for only $5!

Since I believe this is perfection in tea, I am adopting this tea as the House Blend of the Tea Review Blog!