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Additional notes: This one is still a delicious darj. I really wanted to place a smaller Lochan order, but I just can’t right now. I have so much tea at the moment, even if I have one teaspoon left of everything (I don’t) it’s still a lot of tea. I just counted and there are at least 62 teas that will next be sipdowns (I have a sipdown list.) So I’m on tea buying hiatus (though I usually try to be all the time) except for an eventual purchase of teas from Ost. Even though I wanted to buy a few favorites from Tealux, Zen, Steep City (though they seem to be MIA)… I’m trying not to think of any others!

ETA: And Justea! It’s so sad that so many of my favorite tea shops on my favorites list are gone now. Many of them folded this year. :/ Not a good year for tea I guess?

TeaNTees

I think we are all in the same place stash wise! >_<

tea-sipper

Maybe that is why so many tea shops have folded? Tea fanatics already have so much that they try not to buy more? I know I can only drink so much tea. :D

Dexter

Zen Tea is still around: http://www.zentealife.com/
Justea too : http://justea.com/
Steep City’s website is up and running…. http://www.steepcityteas.com/

I know a lot have closed but maybe not as many as you had feared ?

tea-sipper

Oh I know Justea is still open. I guess it looked like I lumped that with the others. But it seems like Zen doesn’t have updates really and I’ve tried to send Steep City e-mails in the past and they aren’t answering. Also no updates.

tea-sipper

I just looked on Zentealife.com’s facebook and they did post on that a few days ago, so they are still around. Just haven’t seen updates to their tea selection as much. Updating my main post.

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TeaNTees

I think we are all in the same place stash wise! >_<

tea-sipper

Maybe that is why so many tea shops have folded? Tea fanatics already have so much that they try not to buy more? I know I can only drink so much tea. :D

Dexter

Zen Tea is still around: http://www.zentealife.com/
Justea too : http://justea.com/
Steep City’s website is up and running…. http://www.steepcityteas.com/

I know a lot have closed but maybe not as many as you had feared ?

tea-sipper

Oh I know Justea is still open. I guess it looked like I lumped that with the others. But it seems like Zen doesn’t have updates really and I’ve tried to send Steep City e-mails in the past and they aren’t answering. Also no updates.

tea-sipper

I just looked on Zentealife.com’s facebook and they did post on that a few days ago, so they are still around. Just haven’t seen updates to their tea selection as much. Updating my main post.

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Hi! I love tea and trying new ones – it adds a bit of variety to my day! Books, music, TV & movies are my thing… and tea, of course.

Some of my favorite tea shops (still operating):
birdandblendtea.com
teavivre.com
52teas.com
svtea.com
whisperingpinestea.com
justea.com
harney.com
Dammann Freres
fusionteas.com
Javateaco.com
Lupicia
Octaviatea.com
Davidstea
eco-cha.com
what-cha.com
singleoriginteas.com
teasenz.com
tealyra.com
Mandala
verdanttea.com

Favorite tea shops (RIP):
butikiteas.com
steapshoppe.com
steepcityteas.com
aquartertotea.com
dellaterrateas.com
zentealife.com
angrytearoom.com
theteamerchant.net
joysteaspoon.com
tealiciousllc.com
Rivertea
Specialteas

My icon photo is Richard Mayhew from the graphic novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey & Glenn Fabry.

Most of the teas listed in my cupboard are actually sample sizes. I don’t really have 2,000 ounces of tea around here! Many of my teas have only one teaspoon left… maybe two. But I like keeping them in my cupboard list for reference to what I could be sipping. Usually, I write tasting notes once for each tea. I’m still drinking them, just not writing tasting notes each time!

I’m always in search of: Hattialli, Qu Hao black, Jin Jun Mei, teas using marshmallow root.

My dislikes: hibiscus, ginger (unless in chai), turmeric, bee pollen, charcoal type flavors

My ratings:
95-100 – Super awesome deliciousness favorites – cupboard essential
80-95 – Also pretty delicious
65-80 – Pretty good
50-65 – Okay
1-50 – Probably won’t want to sip it again

I’m planning on being a Steepsterer as long as there IS a Steepster, so if you’re not hearing from me, that means something happened to my health… if you know what I mean. (Or as evidenced by the great computer hiatus of 2019, something happened to my computer… I have a dumb phone so can’t access internet on that. As of 12/20/21 my wifi might start getting unreliable.)

Happy sipping!

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