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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Most tea stores have samples of a variety of different flavors available at the store. You can taste them and get a better feel for what you like and what you don't like. Look for a World Market in your area. They tend to have a pretty good tea selection and you can get some nice loose leafs to start with there.
Mighty Leaf is a very good brand of bagged tea. It is essentially a loose leaf tea in a nice bag. It is a bit more expensive but they have some good flavors and are pretty easily found.
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This is probably close to what I'm looking for. I think all of the teas I was interested in on the Adagio site had as an option the ability to get them in a pyramid bag - this sounds easier and less fuss to me than loose tea and infusers... at least until I get a better handle on what I like and how often I'm going to be drinking it.
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
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. 
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.
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! 
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Yeah, I seem to go for the fruity sweeter flavors. Maybe after a while of those I'll get adventurous and try the unadulterated teas. Prof Crash, I too would be most interested in your impressions of Teavana stores and staff and sales methods.