Verdant Tea Blend of the Month Club

I am not currently a member, but I was for over a year.

I think my best advice is to go into the Verdant Tea (Special) tag and look at all the blends; they are pretty much all blends club:
http://steepster.com/companies/verdant-tea-special

I tried to be good about inputting the ingredients in the description field when I was a member. Anyway, see if those are the kinds of blends you would like. They tend to love very herbaceous blends, if that’s interesting to you. Favorite ingredients are coriander, sarsparilla/birch bark, fennel/licorice, goji berry, jasmine, so if you don’t like those you might not be up for the club.

It wasn’t for me in the end because I don’t particularly like coriander, sarsparilla or fennel in my teas, so I didn’t want to drink a large portion of what they sent. No clue how it’s been going now since no one enters the new blends into the database.

I’ll be honest..when it initially came out, loved the blends and then they started, as dinosara mentioned, to be heavily weighted one way ot another with ingredients. Now that there’s this “intelligent nutrients” thing that they’ve been doing with blends, i’m much less inclined to have them.

If you could find someone to split the club with, i’d highly recommend it – i did that for a number of months since it was the trying things that i was after.

Thank you for the insight! I’ll try to enter the new blends in case anyone is curious.

I did the VErdant Blend Club for a few months and, as Sil mentioned, I got a lot of Intelligent Nutrients blends. Although unfortunate that my months with Verdant Blend Club fell during this Intelligent Nutrients phase (which I assume is over by now??), these were pretty good overall with a couple of them being very exceptional such as Bergamont White Peony and Yunnan Black Jasmine. I absolutely plan to renew my subscription to this once I have cleared out my current oversized stash and made room, and I definitely recommend it.

I was subscribed for quite a few months, probably 7 or 8, and the blends were awesome at the start, but due to personal tastes (not liking sarsaparilla in tea) and a build up of teas (3 oz a month was too much for me to keep up with), I unsubscribed. As Sil and Dinosara mentioned above, there tended to be strong affinities certain months to certain ingredients, and I just didn’t like some of them. By the end I was finding there would be 1 blend of 3 in a month that I enjoyed, and the tea was just building up too much. But that is only due to my personal tastes!

For anyone who was interested, the June Blends are:

Wuyi Chai: Wuyi Mountain Big Red Robe, ginger, cinnamon, clove, fennel, cardamom pod, peppercorn, burdock, saffron, vanilla, tulsi, goji berries, galangal, chicory

Qilan Palmer: Qilan, orange peel, hibiscus, chamomile, elderflower

Fresh Mint Herbal: peppermint, yerba mate, spearmint, lemon verbena, cardamom seeds

Does anyone here have any Yunnan Black Jasmine remaining from a couple months ago? I’d love to swap you for it!!