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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Stitchawl, do you know anything about the Adagio tea company? I was looking for more flavored teas (that weren't Lipton, LOL) and ran into the site. They look like they have every flavor under the sun. Here's the website:
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Wow! They certainly do have quite a variety! But I have no personal knowledge of them. When I'm trying out a new tea, I buy the smallest quantity of it I can find, and play around with the amount per cup, steeping time, (as both of these impact the flavor more than any other factors) and the time of day that I drink it. Usually, by the third day I know if it's a tea that I'll want to stock.
I think that I'm going to try a couple of their sampler packs of black teas. At this point in my tea life, I know that the herbals and flavored teas aren't for me, except on very rare occasions. The black teas and oolongs are my thing, I guess. In some ways I think I'm jealous of you guys who like the interesting additions to your teas, and straight herbal teas too.
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I find myself leaning toward the fruity green or black teas, and the spiced apple chai on the Adagio site sounds really good. Is there a site that is a favorite for ordering loose leaf teas?
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Go for what floats your boat!
Being in Asia, it's easier for me to find loose leaf teas in the markets and department stores, but I still order a lot of my 'staples' from McNultey's Tea and Coffee in NY.
http://www.mcnultys.com/ and from the Baltimore Tea Company
http://www.baltcoffee.com/ However, the Adagio site 'appears' to have a much better selection of the fruity and flavored teas than either of these! Remember, I only order black and oolong teas.
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ProfCrash wrote;
If you are interested in going to Teavana PM me and I will happily fill you in on their regular sales pitches, why they are wrong, and the best way to shop there. They sell some great teas but the sale people are pretty forceful.
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Prof, would you be so kind as to let us all know about them? I'd be very interested to hear it too. I have no knowledge about Teavana at all!
Stitchawl