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TeaNerdette 37 followers

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SimpliciTEA 233 followers

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QueenOfTarts 348 followers

~ Tea (& Coffee) lover. Bookworm. Favorite teas: Milk Oolong, Flavored bl...

The Seattle Tea Snob 74 followers

I like tea. Oh you mean you want to know more, demanding little sucker aren’t...

Indigobloom 522 followers

Let’s see… I’m a tea and workout fanatic, I work in HR, and most of my friend...

MaddHatter 88 followers

I love to read and what goes better with reading than a hot cup of tea on rai...

LefTea 84 followers

Hello! I’m Amanda, and I’m new to the world of tea. I got sucked in by a sam...

Mercuryhime 245 followers

I came from a tea drinking family, but I never appreciated the different qual...

SimplyJenW 385 followers

My motto: Drink the good tea! Tea enthusiast, trying to keep up my cardio for...

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I very clearly remember my first experience with tea. It was in a Target near my house, and my best friend handed me a cup of chai from the Starbucks inside the store and said, “Try this.” I believe I was about 12 at the time, and from then on, I was completely hooked.

Anyway, as my increasingly weirded out family will tell you, my obsession with tea has (almost) steadily escalated since then. I discovered the world of tea slowly, first with just chai, and then with bagged teas I could get from supermarkets and specialty stores, and then with loose leaf teas. I mostly shop for tea at Teavana, but I also patronize other local shops that I’ve discovered within the last couple of years. I’ve ordered a smattering of teas from a few online places, but I’m always leery of buying tea online, since most of how I select teas in person is by smell… unless I’m at The English Tea Room.

My favorite types of tea are blacks and flavored blacks. And oolongs. Right underneath that are rooiboses and whites, and then greens and herbals, and then mates. I’m always looking for a new favorite, but I appreciate rediscovering old favorites. I like to blend teas, but I never store them that way, mostly because I like to leave myself options.

I prefer nutty/sweet/rich teas to fruity/light-flavored teas or bold/full-bodied teas, but I do try to drink some of everything to widen my palate. I’m always willing to try any tea at least once (except this one tea that Teavana mercifully discontinued… the loose leaf smelled like cheese, I swear). I do perhaps rate teas a little leniently… because I’m not very picky. I will try a tea at least three times before I pronounce that I hate it, and I will always focus on the good aspects of a tea rather than the bad. That’s just how I roll. :3

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Colorado, USA

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