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The "tea" you get for 6 dollars a pound in the US is, generally speaking, the crumbs and fragments leftover from making actually good tea. Wouldn't surprise me
by lotharbot 13y ago
The "tea" you get for 6 dollars a pound in the US is, generally speaking, the crumbs and fragments leftover from making actually good tea. Wouldn't surprise me if you could also eventually get crumb-and-fragment grade pot for 6 bucks a pound.
There's still a market for legitimately high grade tea (not Teavana). I'm interested to see what sort of market develops, over time, for legitimately high-grade MJ here in Colorado.
- squintychino 13y agoCould you recommend a good place online to order good "tea"? I'd seriously like to try some to get a sense of what real tea is suppose to taste like.
- borski 13y agoCheck out http://tealet.com http://tealet.com
- MWil 13y agoBased on the above comment I was expecting like $20/lb tea...not $275/lb. I just checked and I got a box of Bigelow from Food Lion (don't judge). Based on the net weight on the box, it's a little under $35/lb granted it is a small box so buying in bulk would definitely bring that down. So I can't imagine what $6/lb tea would taste like but I'm not sure I can justify $275/lb either. This is my cheap-ass tea by the way: http://www.amazon.com/Bigelow-English-Teatime-Tea-20-Count/dp/B000GG0BN4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388607850&sr=8-1&keywords=bigelow+black+tea http://www.amazon.com/Bigelow-English-Teatime-Tea-20-Count/d... Feel free to suggest something that might amount to a 2x-5x price increase rather than 10x.
- matsur 13y agohttp://uptontea.com http://uptontea.com is somewhere in between and has not disappointed the few times I've ordered from them.
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- VikingIV 13y agohttp://www.luhsetea.com http://www.luhsetea.com
- MWil 13y agohttp://www.luhsetea.com/products/dorian-grey http://www.luhsetea.com/products/dorian-grey I might have to try some of this!
- bgentry 13y agoI love Red Blossom Tea: http://www.redblossomtea.com/ http://www.redblossomtea.com/ Also, the Hacker's Guide to Tea is a great resource: http://www.worldoftea.org/hackers-guide-to-tea/ http://www.worldoftea.org/hackers-guide-to-tea/
- lotharbot 13y agoMy wife generally imports her chinese tea from http://www.teaspring.com http://www.teaspring.com (she's a big fan of Bai Hao oolong) and her japanese green tea from http://www.o-cha.com http://www.o-cha.com .
- ihsw 13y agoDAVIDsTEA is also good, they have a few retail locations around. https://www.davidstea.com/ https://www.davidstea.com/ https://www.davidstea.com/store-locator https://www.davidstea.com/store-locator $20 for 250g (1lb) of earl grey tea, for example.
- MWil 13y agoa pound is 450g
- eric_the_read 13y agoI've been ordering from http://theteatable.com/ http://theteatable.com/ for a few years now; their prices are pretty good, but their selection is remarkable. I can also strongly endorse http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-tea-steeper/ http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-tea-steeper/ as a fantastic tea steeper; I was using it long before they recommended it.
- ayu 13y agoI get most of my tea from Monterey Bay Spice Company. Nice selection and very fair prices. I recommend their organic black tea (11 USD/lb). http://www.herbco.com/ http://www.herbco.com/
- shiven 13y agoTeaGschwendner http://www.tgtea.com http://www.tgtea.com "Earl Grey No. 69", best damn tea, ever.
- CaseyM 13y agohttp://www.zhitea.com http://www.zhitea.com
- richmt 13y agoI'm surprised no one has recommended YS. http://yunnansourcing.com/ http://yunnansourcing.com/ If you want to get into puer tea, a good way to do so is to order a few samples from their US site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh_tea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh_tea
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoArn't even the highest grades of tea only about $40 an ounce though? Or am I missing some 'Primo Stuff' somewhere?
- MWil 13y agoThat still represents a 20x premium over cheap name-brand tea at the store.
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoYou get what you pay for!