SaChasi – French Kiss Truffles
French Kiss Truffles is everything that anyone could want from a tea. And when I say ‘anyone’, I mean specifically me. French Kiss Truffles is everything that Em the Tea Fancier could want from a tea.
I’ve been doing this tea-fancying malarky for over two years. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve rhapsodised about both Earl Grey teas and chocolate teas. And yet, somehow, it had never occurred to me how much better my life would be if someone would take those two tea types and put them together in one brew. Until now.
This blend contains Earl Grey tea, cacao, lavender, violets, vanilla, pink cornflowers, osmanthus petals and natural flavouring. It is absolutely heavenly. SaChasi know their way around a chocolate blend, and this is possibly the nicest one yet. (Although it’s hard to pick favourites when Red Velvet Cupcakes, Dreamy Chocoberry Fondant and Chocolate-Dipped Macaroons all exist.)
If you’re wondering whether French Kiss Truffles are a real thing outside of SaChasi tea blends, then I can confirm that I have done the research, and yes, they are. The recipes I found didn’t have the florist shop-worth of flowers that the SaChasi tea blend does, though. They just seemed to be blends of chocolate, cream and orange.
Mind you, French Earl Grey blends usually have a bunch of lavender and violets and such in them. So maybe that’s why there’s so much flowery action going on here. I’m all for it, of course. All those delicate floral flavours hobnobbing with black tea and chocolate make for a very sophisticated cuppa. I felt quite fancy drinking it. (For a self-professed Fancier, I am usually surprisingly un-fancy.)
My only problem with SaChasi is their tendency to give pluralised names to their tea blends. It means that I have to write sentences containing the words “French Kiss Truffles is…” and that upsets me a little bit.
Although now I’m giving a bit more thought to it, I think that might be a ‘me’ problem. I’m quite comfortable coming out with sentences like “The Four Horseshoes is a great pub” and “The United States is a baffling country”.
Clearly, I’m just not talking about SaChasi teas enough. If I talked about French Kiss Truffles tea more often, the jarring subject/verb agreement would probably bother me less. Well, that’s easily rectified. I shall henceforth sing the praises of this chocolatey Earl Grey masterpiece to everyone I meet. It’s going to lead to some awkward scenes in train carriages and the queue at the chemist, but there you have it.
Today’s featured book is A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. I like to pair Earls Grey with Dickens because the two men were historical contemporaries. Also, 50% of the cities mentioned in the title are in France. So that works out nicely.
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