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My roommate and I recently expanded our tea collection with some teas from a company called David?s Tea. They are based out of Canada but they also have some shops in San Fransico, Boston, New York and Chicago. I found their website from a tea forum I follow and decided that I should check them out.?

?A) They?re cheaper than Teavana and seemed to have as good of quality (which?isn't?that hard in the tea world).
B) They had free shipping on orders over $50. C) Their teas have some fun and somewhat cheesy names which in my book makes me want to shop there. ?So they sparked my interest and I bought a mix of tea types, an oolong, some black teas, a rooibos, a green, and a mate. I also bought a mate ?gourd? and some tins to store the tea in (all of which were reasonably priced and came in super bright colors).

They color code their teas on the website and then sell tins to match that code so you can keep your tea organized, or if you?re me you also make labels for your teas and tape them to the tins.

The Earl?s Garden - A lighter more floral version of the traditional Earl Grey tea, the dried strawberries and flowers give it a very fresh flavor. ?It steeps well and has a flavor to match its scent, which is heavenly but light. Ginseng Oolong - Definitely an oolong you want too steep for short periods of time and good for multiple 30-40 second steepings (even though the instructions say too steep for 5 minutes). Like most Oolongs steeping for an extended amount of time long will make the tea bitter and less flavorful. This tea has a nice almost buttery/nutty flavor to it. Genmaicha - Your traditional green tea with puffed rice and popcorn, it tasted pretty much like most Genmaichas, I did find it to be a bit brighter than my usual Adagio Teas counterpart. Simply the Zest ? Now I?m fairly new to mates, so I don?t really know much about them except that you can steep them multiple times and it?s traditionally a more social event in parts of South America. This particular mate has lemon grass and lemon in I, which really brightens the flavor of the mate.?I've?found most mates to be a tad too bitter for my taste during the first steeping, so this was a nice change of pace. I haven?t had a chance to test out the rooibos or the second black tea yet, mostly because?I've?been making myself a lot if the Earl?s Garden. As soon as they are tried I will add a post about them.

Source: http://teacreations.blogspot.com/2013/03/its-time-for-tea-review-my-roommate-and.html

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