I may have seen this one in the intl’ grocer within 10 minutes of me. I shall investigate! Thx.
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Yorkshire Gold btw
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back up to $27 and change.
Should have snagged it when I had the chance.
450g of tea is a lot. Most tea geeks I know buy 100g, maybe 200g, of any particular tea at a time. Variety is a wonderful thing and the aromatic gamut of tea is (almost) too vast for this short life.
There are many online tea vendors with a focus on Darjeeling, if that’s your preferred cup. Klasek Tea, based in Czech Republic, is an excellent curator of Darjeeling and other nearby regions (i.e. Nepal) and the prices are very good.
Teabox is another, though my own experience with them has been mixed. Their best teas are incredible but you pay a hefty premium across the board and their lower-priced teas were hit-or-miss for me.
My advice: find a vendor that either offers a sampler or allows you to buy in sample quantities (5-10g) and then explore the different calendar harvests (i.e. flushes—first, second, and third) and estates to find what you like. For example, my taste hews towards spring (first-flush) and my favorite estates are Risheehat, Thurbo, Margaret’s Hope, and Nepal’s Jun Chiyabari.
No love for Indian black tea with jasmine?
Arbor Teas has a Jasmine Pearl that’s interesting. Here is a link to all their green teas. I am a Black Tea lover myself, what you are calling Silver they call White Teas like Silver Needle. I know this is sounding like an ad but Arbor Teas are a local, family owned small business that ships world-wide, and they travel to meet the growers and inspect the plantations, farms, and select what they want. It’s pretty cool. All their packaging is backyard compostable, they participate in carbon-credit systems, solar etc. My fervor comes from knowing them, their shop is right across the river from me.
But mostly I just like their tea. Be warned, some of these exotic teas are expensive. Their best affordable Darjeeling to me is this Makaibari Estate 2nd Flush, sometimes they have sales like on Earth Day, that’s when I can afford such a fine tea. Their site is so full of tea knowledge and pictures it might qualify as Tea Pron LOL.
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I agree that’s why I like Arbor Teas you can order little ~n serving samplers, each is priced according to the exotic nature of what it is - the Premium Hawaiian Black sampler is $9, and it says 2 servings; the great organic Nilgiri is only $2.50, and it says 8 servings but I get more than one steep so that’s a deal.
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Good share! I’m not sure how many people know that the U.S. still grows and produces tea, specifically in Hawaii, Washington, and South Carolina. Last I checked, anyway. With the public’s slow but steady increased interest in tea, I wouldn’t be surprised if more growers pop up, especially in the Pacific Northwest, where Camelia seems to thrive.
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