hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today's unboxing is another nespresso advent
calendar unboxing this is for the original lime machine so the smaller capsules i've already
unboxed my virtual advent calendar and i'll put a card here if you want to see that one and i'll
link it at the end and underneath so this is on sale now for 2021 i bought it myself as usual
and this year they've done a collaboration with an artist called johanna ortz and she has done this
gorgeous design i assume she's kind of hand-drawn it and then they've had them printed on the box
so box design really similar to the virtual one except the colors slightly
different virtuo is like a maroon and a red and these are obviously two shades of green
so they've put this in this is just like a little holder that holds um day 24 in place just to
keep it all safe and secure i'm guessing so it literally closes kind of like a book like that
it doesn't really tell you anything on it it just has like the expiry date and things of like the
capsules and stuff inside it actually comes in an outer box like this if you see it in store unless
they are putting like a display item out you would have no idea what was inside it doesn't even tell
you on the back it literally just tells you the number of capsules how many decaf have me regular
that's it so hopefully this video will answer any questions you have about the calendar because i am
going to unbox it and show you every single day so if you want to know exactly what is in here keep
watching like i said on sale now for 35 pound and i'll drop a link underneath
if you do want to buy it so this is what it looks like okay let's do it
day number one on the inside of each door it tells you the blend name and also where it sits on the
kind of strength rating and it is strength rating of taste not of caffeine content the caffeine
content of the capsules is pretty similar it can all be found on espresso's website it's just more
to do with the actual taste that you're getting from the coffee so today we get this one and it is
inspire zone venezia and this is an espresso sized coffee and this one is strength number eight door
number two so behind door number two we actually get a lungo and this is also strength number eight
this is from the new world explorations range and it's called stockholm fortissio longo so i've not
tried this yet i'm not sure if it's the same as like the original fortissio longer which i
quite liked but longo is the sort of double size of an espresso in terms of coffee so you just
use essentially your machine uses twice as much water and pushes it through the coffee capsule
if you do want to learn more about nespresso machines what they can do what drinks you can
make i have done a series of videos you'll find them on my espresso playlist day number three so
denim three is a master origins coffee this is one of my favorites it's nicaragua and i just
love this i just think it has such lovely kind of taste well obviously taste it's like a nice
almost like a hint of caramel or something in the background but not sweet i don't know there's just
something about this one that i really really like and it's a standard espresso size and it's
strength number five so it's not too strong i think most people will probably quite enjoy this
day number four at the bottom our first decaf of the calendar and this is one of the decafs i
personally regularly buy so i like to have decafs in just in case i want coffee later in the day
and obviously don't want it to keep me awake so this one is the ristretto decaffonito or it's now
esperazzoni ristretto decaffonito so it is espresso sized and this is a strength number
10. it's quite strong but this one actually works i find really well with milk because it just cuts
through the milk and you still get a decent coffee taste behind the milk which with some
of the weaker coffees in terms of taste you just don't always get that through the milk especially
if you use quite a lot of milk day number five this is a nice red one and it's espirazone napoli
this is strength number 13. not one i personally tried it's a little higher strength-wise than i
would normally have but i do like to try them all because you just never know day number six
we've got another lungo and this one is actually from the world exploration range again which is
their kind of new range this one's vienna and it says lindsey olungo so i'm wondering if it tastes
like lindsay olunga i'm going to have to try them all again and so now they've changed everything
so this is a strength number six day number seven today we get master origins this one is indonesia
it's strength number eight and it's espresso size day number eight so this one is from the barista
creations range which is actually designed to be drank with milk now personally i don't necessarily
think that's necessary i think a lot of the different blends will work with or without milk so
if you are a couple or what have you or a couple of people enjoying a coffee it might be that one
enjoys with milk one doesn't but you can both have the same coffee it totally depends you've also got
to try and see what works for you um but this is the skero one which from what i remember is the
kind of in-between sort of flavor profile wise and strength wise they do three in the bristol
creations range and this one is obscure and it doesn't tell me what the strength is but
i think it sits between the weaker one and the strongest one this is like yeah mid-range one
day number nine so this is another one where i think they've just kind of renamed it it's
inspira zone roma so i think it's just roma that we've had in the collection for a really long time
let me know if you try both if you think it's the same i kind of feel like they just changed
the name a little bit on some of the capsules just to confuse us and this is a strength number eight
it's quite a nice coffee it's just not one i find myself buying very often day number ten so this
looks to me just like arpeggio but it's the decaf version but now it's called the inspirazone frenze
de cafeto but it still mentions arpeggio inside the door so i think it's arpeggio really
and so another decaf one and another one that cuts really well through milk if you do want to drink
it with milk of course you can drink it without but if you are a milk drinker this is quite a
nice one as well to try not as strong as the black capsule i showed you before which was ristretto
but it's still got quite a nice flavor that kind of cuts through the milk and this one is strength
number nine day number 11. so today we've got a flavoured coffee again from barista creations
this one is vanilla eclair and i do like the flavored blends that they do when i'm in the mood
because they do genuinely seem to taste like what they say they will without that kind of
artificial sweetness because there isn't any kind of sugar or syrup or anything added that
kind of ups your sugar intake or anything so you do just get that genuine taste within the coffee
so it's quite a good option day number 12. so this is another from the world explorations
range this one's called tokyo vivalto of longo so again does it just taste like the velto longo
but they are really pretty with a little design on them and i am actually quite happy to have a lot
of these different new coffees or newly branded coffees just so i can try them and see if it's
worth kind of buying in the full size and that's the great thing about the calendar definitely kind
of helps you to decide which coffees you really love rather than having to buy sleeves of 10 and
then discover you don't like it and this is a strength number six day number thirteen oh so
this one is a special reserve which i think is one of those like limited edition coffees that they do
where it's ten pounds for a sleeve of ten so a pound of coffee i've never actually dried them
because i've never been willing to pay that for the coffees but if that's one of them and i think
it is then that makes this a little more exciting than i thought it would so this is special reserve
hawaii kona day number 14. so this is from the master origins range and it's india this is a
strength number 11. day number 15. so today we get inspirazone frenzy arpeggio as was but this
is the non-decaf version the caffeinated version and this is strength number nine
day number 16. we've got another master origins this one is a columbia which used to be one of
my favorites and now just doesn't seem to be one i reach for now it is a nice coffee i don't know why
i kind of went off it maybe i'll rediscover it now and this is a strength number six day number 17.
this is from the world explorations range and it's shanghai lungo so this is definitely brand new i
can't see anything in the previous range that would kind of pair up with this but this one
is a strength number five it seems like they're expanding the lungo range i think a lot of us
are enjoying just a little bit extra coffee let me know are you a lungo or an espresso drinker or
both i mean do you have a preference and do you drink with or without milk day number 18. and
this is voluta which is just part of the kind of standard core range one of the quite popular ones
i think and yeah it's just a really lovely kind of gentle coffee and this is a strength number
four if you don't like your coffee is quite as strong day number 19. this is world explorations
cape town and vivo longo so is it just in vivo longo it's strength number 10. day number 20.
and this is as i'd call estresso but it's actually called isparazone arristrato italiano and this
is strength number 10 so it's the caffeinated version of the one we kind of already received
in an earlier day in decaf version day number 21. this is world explorations it's buenos eres
longo this is definitely a new one i've never tried this one and this is a strength number four
so it shouldn't be too powerful taste wise but interesting to see what the flavor profiles are
on these day number 22 and this one is esperazone geneva levanto they're trying to make these as
difficult as possible to say or is that just me so this is another kind of from the core range
and this is strength number six day number 23. so this is from the barista creations this one is
caramel creme brulee so it's got that nice kind of caramelly creme brulee flavor as you'd expect
day number 24 this is usually the most exciting door or box because it's actually a box anybody
want to guess what's inside so this does tend to change every year and this year is no different
so this year we get a mug from the lumiere range so this i don't want to spoil it for anyone but
check out the virtuo advent calendar you do get this same mug in there which seems a bit of a cop
out usually they give you smaller mugs in this calendar because obviously most of the coffees
will be used to make an espresso or longer size drink this time they've given us a full-size mug
let me know what you think about that i can see the pluses in the sense of if you have lots and
lots of milk in your drink you might appreciate a big mug so that you can do that but for me i think
i'd rather have had maybe a grand lungo size or a lungo sized mug or like a little cappuccino cup
rather than a mug i just feel this fits more with the virtual range but let me know your thoughts
it is a really lovely mug i actually already own these in grand longo size so they are a
matte porcelain the dishwasher safe and all that kind of stuff then they've got a nice kind of cut
out there that kind of goes flat so it's just got like a little bit of extra little touches
to it so they feel special as cups and it's just like a standard shiny mug inside it's quite nice
having a white mug as well with black coffee and there's just something about it so these usually
retail for a pack of two at 20 pounds which means this mug is worth 10 pounds the calendar is 35
pounds so you're getting a mug worth 10 pounds and then you're getting 23 individual capsules
what do i think of them last year when i unboxed these two calendars they did include the christmas
blends for that year and that was quite exciting because obviously not only was that christmassy
which it's a christmas calendar but also it kind of gave you a little bit of a sneak peek of the
christmas coffees so maybe that's why they've not included them this time because they don't
want to give us a sneak peek i don't know but it just seems a shame in a christmas calendar not to
include any christmas blends so let me know your thoughts on that and i say the same thing every
year and it doesn't seem to have changed i just wish they would include behind some of the doors
the odd chocolate the odd biscuit with the coffee capsule just to make it that little
bit more exciting let me know your thoughts i mean obviously i like the calendar i buy it every year
i enjoy opening it throughout december and finding a different coffee every day because
by the time i get to december i've forgotten what's behind which door and i do like the
inclusion like i said of that limited edition especially if they retail like a pound of capsule
but other than that value-wise it's obviously worth less than the contents but that's kind of
expected you get that in a lot of chocolate advent calendars don't you and in terms of the box itself
much nicer than what they've done previously much fancier much more looks it's not pull out drawers
that'd be even nicer you could i suppose refill it they are not going to look perfect and they
are just like the standard rip open the door but you could in theory keep it and like fill it for
your other half or a friend or somebody enjoys an espresso next year but then you'd have to buy lots
and lots of different boxes to put different ones in and things so just something you could think
about though but let me know in the comments what you think of this year's calendar have you got it
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