Just For Fun - TOP 10 in Steepster Cupboard?

Another fun one!

According to what’s in my cupboard right now (based on ratings), my top ten are the following:

1. Champagne Cassis – Tea Desire
2. Apple Ale White Tea – A Quarter to Tea
3. Pumpkin Irish Cream – Butiki
4. Spring 2014 Drunk on Red with Snow Chrysanthemum – Yunnan Sourcing
5. Blueberry Jam – DAVIDsTEA
6. Coconut Oolong – Tao Tea Leaf
7. 2017 Nightlife – White2Tea
8. Psychocandy – August Uncommon
9. Snow Chrysanthemum Buds Flower Tea from Kunlun Mountains – Yunnan Sourcing
10. Himilayan Musky Thunder – Terroir Tea

I really like the diversity of my top ten!

This is tough because I have many teas I’ve only had once and I rated them 99 or 100 vs others I’ve had lots of times but no longer have in my cupboard. So, in no particular order:

Premium Jin Xuan Milk Oolong Tai Hua Gao Shan (2015) – Yunnan Sourcing
Pumpkin cheesecake – David’s Tea
Mulberry – Silk Road
Milky China Green Oolong – Special Teas Inc
Strawberry Zabaglione – 52teas
Shou Mei – Verdant Tea
Decaf blueberry – Adagio
Lemon Pound Cake – DAVIDsTEA
Birthday Cake – DAVIDsTEA
Ripe Mango Oolong – Lupicia

Shout out to
Vanilla Comoro – Harney & Sons
Cookie – Lupicia
who were not in the top 10 but are also rated 100 or 99. Love these two and wanted to include them since they are not any less deserving of praise.

My list isn’t ranked, so in librarian fashion I’ve just put them in alphabetical order. I don’t use the cupboard like most people on Steepster, so anything I have drank/reviewed I keep in my cupboard, I don’t use it for “inventory” (I have an external spreadsheet for that) so I don’t own some of these teas now; the exact reason why I keep everything in my cupboard is so I can go back and sort by ratings and other things like that (quite useful with my terrible memory if I’m trying to think of things I potentially want to restock in the future). These are the teas I have rated at 100 or 99.

[52Teas] Foggy Coconut
[Angry Tea Room] Lavender Earl Grey
[Bird & Blend] Peppermint Cream
[Dethfelsen & Balk c/o The Angry Tea Room] Sparkling Wine
[Herbal Moon Apothocary] Sweet Lavender [discontinued]
[Malfoy Tea Company] Butterscotch Brew
[Strand Tea] Three Treasures Oolong
[Tea Chai Te] Spiced Vanilla Chai
[TeaCrush] Turmeric Ginger Pear Sparkling Rooibos Tea / Matcha Pineapple Coconut Sparkling Green Tea [Unavailable in my area]
[TeaSource] Rhubarb Oolong
[Thunder Mountain Tea] Strawberry Dawn
[Whispering Pines] Lapsang Souchong, Unsmoked, Spring 2017 / [Dazzle Deer] Wild Lapsang Souchong

I don’t use the Steepster cupboard anymore either…Google Sheets is what I use to track the teas in my collection. My top 10 teas are listed below, based on what’s actually in my physical cupboard at the moment:

1. Yuuki-Cha Miyazaki Tokujo Kamairicha
2. Taiwan Sourcing Competition Grade Emperror Roasted Dong Ding
3. Verdant High Elevant Mi Lan Xiang
4. Murchie’s Magnolia Oolong
5. Yunnan Sourcing “Black Gold” Bi Luo Chun
6. Verdant Golden Jasmine Black Tea
7. Trader Joe’s Earl Grey De La Creme
8. Yunomi Sakura Sencha w/ Sugared Sakura Leaves
9. Murchie’s Mango Green Tea
10. Yuuki-Cha Organic Uji Matcha Yuuki Midori

I also don’t use the Steepster cupboard. Here are the ten highest-rated teas that I still own, in descending order.

Feng Huang Hong Cha (Camellia Sinensis)
Bai Hao (Camellia Sinensis)
Pekoe Gold Premium Grade Legend Oriental Beauty Baihao Oolong Tea (FONG MONG)
Bai Ye Varietal Dan Cong Black Tea Spring 2016 (Yunnan Sourcing)
Phoenix Dan Cong (Almond) Oolong Tea – Premium (Tao Tea Leaf)
Organic Wuyi Hong Shui Oolong (Eco-Cha)
Anxi Monkey King (Ma Liu Mie) Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea (Teavivre)
Yun Nan Dian Hong Black Tea – Golden Tip (Teavivre)
2018 Zhangshu Hu Ali Shan Oolong (TheTea)
Darjeeling 1st Flush Clonal Thurbo DJ-41 (Camellia Sinensis)

There’s not much diversi-tea and I’ve consumed all of my highly rated green oolongs, but this seems about right. :)

The Feng Huang Hong Cha has become a cupboard staple! I’ve actually never found a black Dan Cong I don’t like, which isn’t surprising since I tend to go for fruity/floral black teas (and the Golden Tip has that profile, too).

My top 10 teas by ratings are:
1. The Vanilla Marshmallow – 52 Teas
2. Ginger Cola – 52 Teas
3. On Wisconsin Jade Oolong – AQ2T
4. Crisp Cranberry Soda Green Rooibos – 52 Teas
5. Anne’s Gone Bananas…and Maybe a Little (Coco)nuts Too! – 52 Teas
6. Melon Oolong – Lupicia
7. Maple Marshmallow Treat Genmaicha – 52 Teas
8. Candy Cane Crush – DAVIDsTEA
9. Kenya ‘Rhino’ Premium White Tea – What-Cha
10. Sticky Toffee Bread Pudding Dragon Pearls – AQ2T

I might have a favorite tea company…

OK! MY TURN!

Top 10 I Still Own!

- Classic Bai Lin Gong Fu Spring 2018 (Yunnan Sourcing) - Jasmine Silver Needles (Yunnan Sourcing) - Golden Monkey (Adagio Teas) - Milk Oolong (Mandala Tea) - Caramel Apple Dream (Celestial Seasonings) - Skele-Gro (Adagio Teas Fandom Blend) - Cocoa Amore (Whispering Pines Tea Company) - Genmaicha (Yunomi) - Ginger Cola (52Teas) - Ailaoshan Black Tea (Whispering Pines Tea Company)

I need to go back and fiddle with some of the ratings on a couple of my teas. For reasons I have gotten into elsewhere I have previously been shamed into thinking if it needs sweetener it is bad tea, so I refused to rate anything that needed sweetener above a 79 regardless of how much I loved it. I’ve changed a few since then (like Skele-Gro and Ginger Cola) but still have many more to give their just due.

@LuckyMe, that magnolia oolong sounds tasty. I have the same overstocking issue as everyone else here, but I’ll have to remember it when my cupboard is less unmanageable.

Also, is Tea Ave now closed? The website’s still up but there are no products in stock.