Oh La La! This tea is le délicieux. Okay Don’t fault me please if I butchered the French language. I butcher the English language as well so all’s fair. What a wonderful way to wake up! A rich bold black tea with the perfect level of sweetness!

This tea is also slightly malty, toasty, roasty, nutty, and has a solid cocoa flavor as well. It reminds me a bit of a good pu-erh!

The chocolate notes are strong, and the first aroma you will notice in the dry leaf state. There are some complexities in this tea and  you will notice that the different flavor notes sort of bounce around from sip to sip. Sometimes you will notice the chocolate notes more, sometimes the sweet flavor of sugared roasted chestnuts, other times it will be the malty under note.

This is what Lupicia Tea says about Chaud Les Marrons!

Black tea with a rich aroma and the sweetness of roasted chestnuts which are sold on the streets of Paris.

Well I don’t know about chestnuts sold on the streets of Paris as I have not had the pleasure of going there, but they do remind me of those roasted nuts I always get at the Renaissance Festival, and are sold at the mall, but those are not nearly as good.

Trust me you will not be adding any sweeteners here! Even if you typically “always” add sweetening agents. This tea is perfection when it comes to knowing the absolute right level of sweet.

This tea is brewed for 3 to 5 minutes (I brewed for 3 on the first steep and it was perfect) at a boiling temperature, using 1 teaspoon of the tea. Re-steeps nicely but I added an extra minute.

Lupicia Tea is quickly becoming one of my top tea vendor options! So far I have immensely enjoyed four out of five of the teas I have from this company and the fifth I did like quite a lot, but would not have put it on my top 20 list. Still that is a great record in my book! Consistency in a tea company is key for me! It feels good knowing that if you want to go for it and add a tea you have never tried before to your cart that the odds of really loving it to at least really liking it a lot are high!

As the tea cools the flavor of hot cocoa becomes more apparent, as well as the caramelized nut flavor. I am not sure how I would feel about this tea being iced though. On one hand it certainly would hold up its flavor but on the other hand due to the cocoa being a prime flavor I just don’t think I could get my mind around it being iced, then again I do like cold chocolate milk. Interesting however that cocoa is not even mentioned on the tea description! Chocolate is quite popular in Paris though from what I understand, then again where isn’t it popular?!

I can absolutely see myself in my dreams of course, sitting at a café on a street corner in Paris, sipping this exquisite tea! Of course in this dream, I am taller, thinner, blonder, and far better looking!

If you have never tried Lupicia Teas please don’t delay! Their tea descriptions are not as through as some companies, or as floral with the words used but what they say is exactly what you get! I find that to be quite positive, direct is best.