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This one is back I my cupboard thanks to the sweet Black Friday prices Della Terra had. To me this is exactly like the Red Velvet Cake from DAVIDs, with the latter being easier to obtain, but when my DAVIDs tin is empty and they don’t have a sale of any kind and these guys do… Della terra 1 – DAVIDs 0.

It doesn’t resteep worth a damn though, this one. I just tried to resteep the leaves from this morning as I didn’t know what I was in the mood for and these leaves were in front of me. But … No. It’s quite weak on resteep. No surprise there but it doesn’t hurt to try, right?

PS. Speaking of DAVIDs… Their “sales” kinda suck, in my opinion. Like, what about reducing the price of your tea every now and then like other companies do? And I’m not talking those web specials where you have to buy like 8 oz to save a handful of bucks. Unless maybe they think they are offering it as cheaply as they can. I’ve been getting my tea elsewhere lately, lured by 20% of here and there.

Happy almost New Year everyone!

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Boiling 2 min, 45 sec
Fjellrev

I’ll admit that I’m too lazy to resteep teas most to the time, especially flavoured ones.

And about David’s, yeah, I was hoping for more teas on sale after xmas, and not just seasonal prepackaged stuff. That doesn’t count! I guess they feel like they’ve established their name enough that they don’t need to have more sales in order to keep customers coming back.

mrmopar

Happy New Year to you as well my friend!

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Fjellrev

I’ll admit that I’m too lazy to resteep teas most to the time, especially flavoured ones.

And about David’s, yeah, I was hoping for more teas on sale after xmas, and not just seasonal prepackaged stuff. That doesn’t count! I guess they feel like they’ve established their name enough that they don’t need to have more sales in order to keep customers coming back.

mrmopar

Happy New Year to you as well my friend!

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I started drinking loose leaf tea in the spring of 2013 (why do we feel compelled to mark the date of tea drinking somewhat like addicts counting their sobriety days?)

Never been much into tea before. Growing up in Romania, tea was something mom made for you when you were sick. As an adult, my hot beverage of choice has been coffee, both flavoured and regular. I’ve recently stumbled upon Teavana and DAVIDs TEA and quickly got addicted to the latter. Then came steepster and all else followed.

Formerly a mathematician and insurance adjuster, I gave up the corporate world and am now a professional chef. I drink wine and sometimes cheat on it with tea.

I lean heavily towards flavoured black teas. I’ve started to crave the occasional straight oolong and green but so far unflavoured black teas leave me unimpressed.

I’m learning so I drink them all. Am even introducing myself to pu’erh. So far I can do fine with the sheng cause frankly, they don’t taste like pu’erh to me. The shou is another story.

Note*: The virtual cupboard does NOT contain any of the samples I hold since most of them are one-cup quantity.

Note**: My partner, our home improvements, gadgets, mortgage, travel, wine and food have budget priority over tea.

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