Kushmichoff is my favorite tea company. Not only do they supply genuinely delicious full-leaf tea to slovenly sorts like me, they have the hoplessly romantic cachet of being the one-time tea purveyors to the czars, post-revolutionarily blending their wares in Paris. Oh, to be a lovely Russian exile skating on the Seine!
I can drink pots and pots of Anastasia, a sort of apotheosis of Earl Grey. And the text on the luxe gold label is so lovely I must share it with you in its entirety:
I can drink pots and pots of Anastasia, a sort of apotheosis of Earl Grey. And the text on the luxe gold label is so lovely I must share it with you in its entirety:
Created in 1867 at St-Pétersbourg by Pavel Michailovitch KOUSMICHOFF, we were one of the GREATEST ANCIENT RUSSIAN TEA FIRM, purveyor by special appointement to the Tzars until the revolution in 1917.Don't you want a cup just as soon as humanly possible?
Established in FRANCE since 1920, we remain THE ONLY GENUINE RUSSIAN TEA FIRM and we carry on as in former times, under the label KUSMI, to offer to fine lovers our different RUSSIAN BLENDS, aromatic and tasty, so considered through the world under the name of RUSSIAN TEAS.
