Really pricey tea :( What's the most you have ever paid?

^ for the record, it was an amazing tea, I actually ended up buying that same tea again and again and again. Sadly I can’t find it anymore or I’d still be buying it.

I know some puerh can get insanely expensive, but I don’t honestly drink a lot of it, so I don’t have any stories about that.

The most I’ve paid recently though was $39/2 oz for American Tea Room’s Milk Oolong. It’s worth it as a treat, but not something I buy regularly.

Though I wouldn’t have thought it until I just now did the math, per ounce price the highest I’ve paid is $12.50 for Butiki’s Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black and Mi Xian. I guess I must just look at what I’m paying at the time I buy, not on a per ounce basis.

Before trying to figure it out for this topic, I would have thought it was Eros by T, but that ends up being less than $7 an ounce. Since I bought 3.5 ounces at once, it seemed more expensive than the $6.25 I spent on a 1/2 ounce of the Butiki teas. Panyang Golden Tips from Harney is $25 per ounce sold in 2 ounce size and while I love it madly, I just can’t make myself buy more than a sample size at a time. The sample is $4 but I’m not sure how much is in their samples.

But I would probably come close to selling a kidney to keep Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black on hand…

Verdant Qimen Anhui Black Tea $19.95 for 1oz.
Without going back and doing the math, I think this is the most expensive. I’ve paid $8 or $9 for samples, but not sure how much was in the samples.
Price doesn’t always guarantee amazing tea. I’ve got some favorites that I consider really inexpensive. :))

I’m sure there are other more expensive teas I’ve ordered, but most recently it was Nonpareil Anxi Qing Xiang TieGuanYin Oolong Tea from TeaVivre which is $19.90 for 1.75oz which works out to $11.37 per oz.

This is without a doubt my favorite oolong and the quality is high so I don’t mind paying that much per ounce.

Mariage Freres, partly because of the shipping.

I’ve never felt like Verdant was “actually” that expensive in that I find almost everything I’ve had from them resteepable to a degree/quality I rarely do with black teas. One serving of many of their black teas can be the only tea I drink all day, without ever feeling like I’m missing out. So it lasts a lot longer. But that’s just me.

I once spent $35 for two ounces of Silver Needle; I wish I could find more of it (or even the supplier) however it was gone long ago. Yes, expensive. I got hooked on a generous sample by the supplier (who goes to China to source their own teas every year), and then had to buy more. I’d often get 3-5 resteeps out of it, so it was well worth it to me.

mmmm I didn’t pay for it, but my parents bought a white tea from marriage freres that was 20euro for 20g…so 26USD ish for 20 grams

it was divine!

I’m not entirely sure, but I think it’s a close tie between Butiki’s Champagne & Rose Cream ($12/oz)and Den’s Tea Shincha Tasting Set (1oz of Shincha Kunpu and 1 oz of Houryoku for $19.58 – I’m not sure whether they were the same price individually).

The most I spent (with holiday money) and likely ever will spend is 8 bucks on 2 ounces of tea… it came in a nice tin too.