Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!

Yay it made it!

Awesome order TeaTiff :-)

My recent H&S also included Indian Nimbu and Queen Catherine, both excellent.

Have a nice morning cup tomorrow!

Enjoy the teas. Have you decided on a morning cup?

No decision yet:) They all smell so good. I will probably go with the assam, or maybe just one of each:)

I vote for one of each :-)

I have Nahorhabi every morning. Every morning I have a dilemma what to drink and I settle on Assam:)

The Golden Monkey is in my tea pantheon.

Yay! WP orders make me soooo happy! I too have one (yes, another ) on the way.

Enjoy :-)

Haha, there’s something about them that just makes you want to order MORE from them. But no more for me for a while… until BF probably ;D

ooh! darjeeling whites are a bit light bodied for me, at least the one I’ve tried. but a Yunnan varietal sounds more promising. tell me how it is!

I will!

I so envy you to have a tea shop to physically go to, lol…there are none in my neck of the woods!

Enjoy, great finds :-)

We have some nice coffee shops some of which served looseleaf and a bakery which does high tea. There is/was another tea store at the end of the town centre, but I don’t know if they made a go of it. Its basically next to starbucks . I don’t know if that will help or hinder it as they may get overflow traffic. It is nice to have a place nearby. It is in a perfect place to grab a cup and then go for a stroll by the lake or the river.

Apt, so far its really good. It is very sweet with honey sugar cane notes, lots of chocolate notes, roasted light smoke notes from processing, malt and that sort of vitamin c note I always get in this type of teas. To be honest it tastes like a more honeyed version of some very tippy Chinese blacks I’ve had, with notes I’ve found in some keemun, jinjunmei, and Yunnan’s it was flavourful from the first steep and I am currently on steep 7. Yum.

sounde delicious, thanks for following up.

I stopped in there yesterday but had little time and there were too many teas on the menu! I did a quick scan and saw most were flavoured. I like flavoured but have been drinking a lot of straight teas lately so was looking for something like that. I figured it’s better to stop back in when I have some time to go over their teas.

i want to go!

Here’s an extra note for those in the area. Cousins grocery store on Hurontario is carrying some different teas. Just a few of the Harney & Sons and some other brands (can’t remember the names now) Mostly black teas which didn’t interest me but someone else may want to know.

So agree that it is mostly flavoured. Some of the flavoured smelled pretty nice. Their straight teas that I remember, were a Dragonwell, a green Darjeeling, Lopchu black and the bai mudan, and an Assam. They do have a wall with sample jars that you find by number to smell. They intend to display their menu on their website eventually. http://www.sassyteas.com but it is not up yet. They are not planning to open an e-store.

Thanks Ubucat, I haven’t dropped into Cousins lately, it sounds like they may be experimenting with more teas. I mostly get to Battaglias on Lorne Park. Is any of the Harney’s Looseleaf? Battaglias had some but it was all sachets and nothing I was interested in. Battaglias often has some form of looseleaf as well. Right now they have Tea squared, some cheap Ceylon, and twinnings earl grey. They have a few Teapigs sachets. I wonder if they joint order anything. I know that they are both run by Battaglias. Battaglias is pretty awesome though. They even have Italians making trips from little Italy North to shop there.

It’s such a tiny store that they can only stock a small amount of tea. Yes, they were all sachet at least for the Harney & Sons. Can’t remember about the other but (now that you mention it) I think Tea squared might have been one of the other ones they were carrying.

Thanks for the info on Sassy Teas. An on-line menu would be great.

It is, but it’s set up nicely!

Woo! I’m really looking forward to this one. It’s an interesting idea, for sure.

Yay for RiverTea!!

Uh oh. Mail Jail? Because of customs or something?

Just wasn’t home the first time they tried to drop it off; and because it was a box they wouldn’t leave it for me.

Ah. I was afraid it was customs since I’m going to be getting tea from RiverTea sometime next week.
I noticed that their office is in Germany, so I was thinking it’s being sent from there? Or am I off? XD

:D

Happy Friday!