What's the one tea you binge ordered on?
What’s the one tea you bought an excessive amount of after drinking it?
What’s the most you’ve ever binged on a tea?
For me, I once ordered 350g of Red Buffalo Oolong from What-Cha. I went way overboard on it.
ClariTea from Whispering Pines. I just bought 3oz and I don’t think I’ve ever ordered over an oz from them. The fact that it’s cheap helps.
Some of their stuff looks really good. I havnt gotten around to trying their oolongs.
This would be a rather large list for me..
The most I’ve ever ordered at once was a kilogram, something I do on a somewhat regular basis. If a tea is one I can drink everyday and the price is right I will by that much. I had an experience like Allan once also where I was shipped a kilo of the wrong tea. The company replaced it with a kilo of the correct tea leaving me with a whole lotta tea.
Once I bought a pound of Bai Mudan from Harney and Sons. Without trying. Of course I didn’t like it tasteless colorless liquid. It was 2010-2011. I forgot about it. I was about to throw it out but decided to try. Turned out I aged my white tea. It got darker, the soup was bright orange , tasted like apricot jam and nuts. Sigh
i was surprised i could age tea myself without any special jars or attention. Just left it in original paper pack.
I once ordered a tong of Dayi ripe and the shipment was not delivered after about fifty days. They reshipped the tea. The new shipment showed up, the old shipment showed up. I ended up with two tongs of excellent ripe. I sold about four cakes though and still have the rest.
Dammann Freres in general. I think I topped out at 5000 grams of different teas of theirs.
Oh wow. What’s your favorite tea from them?
The $20+ shipping fee always deters me from ordering from them TBH.
I bought a pound of Adagio’s Honeybush Hazelnut last year, and recently bought a pound of green rooibos from Davidson’s on Amazon.
Pretty much any shipment of puerh from China. By the time I spend $20 or more in shipping, I figure I have to order well over $100 to make it worthwhile. Also, I placed an order from Thunderbolt tea a couple of years ago. They were having a big sale, but their free shipping minimum was $80. I’m still drinking the tea (which is still wonderful).
I didn’t order it all at once, but while it was available it looks like I order 6 oz of Verdant’s Ginger Sage Winter Spa Blend (which they do not offer anymore, sadface). I only have about 1 cup left from those 6 oz too haha.
I bought a pound of Harney and Sons Vanilla Comoro, because it was the cheapest way. Terrible idea, I still have half a pound left 4 or 5 years later, despite giving loads away. I really gotta compost that.
In successful stories, I’ve gone through at least 400 g of Black Jasmine Pearls (Davids Tea), Golden Monkey (Teavivre), Black Dragon Pearls (Teavivre), Bailin Gongfu (Teavivre) and Yun Nan Dian Hong (Teavivre). I loves them.
You just have to drink more of the Vanilla Comoro. I’m on my second bag. It takes about 2 years for me to go through a pound, but it holds up pretty well. It’s also popular in TTBs, because Harney only sells it in bags or by the pound.
I suspect it’s…pretty gross by now. Actually I don’t know where it is, maybe I did compost it. I used it mainly with chai spices for decaf chai lattes for a friend who was avoiding caffeine as I quickly came to find it too thin on its own. I like to jump in with both feet sometimes, and it took a while to rein back my tea purchases.
A pound of Butiki’s Oriental Beauty. I’m still drinking it. Other than that, 500g each of some oolongs from Teavivre, but then I also rebought that again before I even hit less than 50g left.
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