Paris Breakfast Tea Guide: Mariage Frères' Citrus Black Tea with a Green-Tea Finish
Paris Breakfast Tea is easy to misread from the front of the tin. Mariage Frères calls it a flamboyant black tea with citrus notes. Read the full description, though, and a hint of green tea unfurls at the end.
That changes how the tea should be understood. The house builds a progression from a zesty, honeyed opening through malted chocolate, tender vanilla and warm brioche toward something like candied tangerine, then lets green tea freshen the finish. The ingredient line is plainer: tea and aroma.
What is Paris Breakfast Tea?
A black tea blend with a hint of green tea, by Mariage Frères' description. The ingredient statement reads tea and aroma, with a note that it may contain traces of nuts. The chocolate, vanilla, brioche, honey and tangerine are notes in the aroma, not separate ingredients.
How Mariage Frères says to brew Paris Breakfast
- 2.5 grams of tea
- 200 milliliters of water
- 95°C / 203°F
- 5 minutes
The green tea at the finish does not change the recipe. Mariage Frères brews the finished blend like its black teas, at 95°C.
Paris Breakfast or French Breakfast?
French Breakfast (French Breakfast tea guide) concentrates on round black tea with chocolate and malt. Paris Breakfast is more elaborate: honeyed citrus, malted chocolate, vanilla, brioche, candied tangerine and a green-tea finish. Both brew at 2.5 grams per 200 milliliters, 95°C, five minutes.
Paris Breakfast or English Breakfast?
English Breakfast (English Breakfast tea guide) is broken black-tea leaves, strength, malt and body, brewed for three minutes. Paris Breakfast gets five minutes and far more aroma.
What "Paris" means here
It is a mood, not an origin. Mariage Frères arranges its breakfast teas as a set of mornings in different places, from English and French to Russian, American and Tokyo.
Who it suits
Choose it if ordinary breakfast tea feels too linear. Citrus lifts the opening, pastry notes fill out the middle and green tea freshens the finish.
Where it sits in the range
English Breakfast is the functional anchor. French Breakfast is rounder, with chocolate and malt. Paris Breakfast is the most architectural of the three, moving through citrus and pastry notes before the green-tea finish.
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