So I found a tea shop in London today but all the teas were soooo familiar. I genuinely think that all these local loose leaf stores all source from the same few wholesalers which means I keep finding the same teas again and again. With that said, while I bought this from a tea shop called The Tea Haus, I am pretty sure it is from the Metropolitan Tea Company which is why I am reviewing it here. Also, apparently I have had this before and was not really a fan since I rated it a 58 and said I would not recommend it.
Anyways, I steeped up this tea this evening mostly to take a break from reading about law stuff. That might have been a bad call because now I do not want to go back to reading law stuff hence why I am writing this review. I also steeped it on video for my 365 days of tea thing on instagram so that can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2iNz8WBjdB/
Taste-wise and smell-wise it actually has a lot of honey notes to it which I am really enjoying and that honey is topped by a lemon note. At times the lemon can be a bit harsh/bitter/cleaning supply-like but mostly it is a burst of lemon atop the softer honey which is best when sipped to really let the latter come through. There is also a touch of something drying which could be a mix of the lemon and flowers. However, it is not bad and certainly not worth the 58 I have rated it previously.
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You would be right about that; I research wholesaler stuff a lot and have found most blends seem to be sourced from one of four places, typically: Metropolitan Tea Co., International Tea Importers, East India Coffee and Tea, or Deflefsen & Balk. The blends are many times renamed by the shops but the ingredient lists give them away.
Yes – there’s about nine or ten wholesalers that supply probably about 80%(ish) of all tea companies. MTC seems to be a favourite of a lot of “Mom & Pop” type tea shops in CA/US from what I’ve seen. Wollenhaupt was another big one that I’ve seen a ton of small tea companies purchasing from within the prairies.
You would be right about that; I research wholesaler stuff a lot and have found most blends seem to be sourced from one of four places, typically: Metropolitan Tea Co., International Tea Importers, East India Coffee and Tea, or Deflefsen & Balk. The blends are many times renamed by the shops but the ingredient lists give them away.
Yes – there’s about nine or ten wholesalers that supply probably about 80%(ish) of all tea companies. MTC seems to be a favourite of a lot of “Mom & Pop” type tea shops in CA/US from what I’ve seen. Wollenhaupt was another big one that I’ve seen a ton of small tea companies purchasing from within the prairies.