Mastress Alita’s sipdown challengeSunday, January 24th: National Compliment Day Tea #2
Additional notes: Another ultimate favorite that is also one of the oldest I have around. It’s still amazing. Another tea I would love to find the source of. I definitely know that it was also sold at California Tea House as Pistachio Gelato. Only a couple teaspoons left. I’m tea spoiled today! Can’t wait to see the teas for February’s tea hunt. :D
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Looks like this Teavana tea was also the same?
Yes, good catch!
Although the Teavana one says milk chocolate, and your tea says white chocolate…
No, I think you are right, Cameron. I did some digging, and according to this VERY old Steepster forum thread, SpecialTeas blended teas for Teavana, but since they didn’t want people buying directly from their wholesale source, they shut down/merged with SpecialTeas.
https://steepster.com/discuss/1330-specialteas-dot-com-is-gone
Oh wow, that’s really interesting…
i guess this means specialteas was an original blender?
Ya, it sounds like they made blends that they then wholesaled to other people, one of their customers being Teavana. But Teavana didn’t want the blends they chose to carry to be bought directly from SpecialTeas (or the other vendors it wholesaled to) so it sounds like they bought them out (from what I’ve gathered from that thread, but being a forum thread, I would not be surprised if a good deal of hearsay is involved in the information there). And then of course Starbucks bought out Teavana… so I think it’s safe to say it is a very defunct company now.
Another reason to not like Teavana and Starbucks… taking my favorites away. grumble grumble
Looks like this Teavana tea was also the same?
https://steepster.com/teas/teavana/1643-choconut
Yes, good catch!
Although the Teavana one says milk chocolate, and your tea says white chocolate…
No, I think you are right, Cameron. I did some digging, and according to this VERY old Steepster forum thread, SpecialTeas blended teas for Teavana, but since they didn’t want people buying directly from their wholesale source, they shut down/merged with SpecialTeas.
https://steepster.com/discuss/1330-specialteas-dot-com-is-gone
Oh wow, that’s really interesting…
i guess this means specialteas was an original blender?
Ya, it sounds like they made blends that they then wholesaled to other people, one of their customers being Teavana. But Teavana didn’t want the blends they chose to carry to be bought directly from SpecialTeas (or the other vendors it wholesaled to) so it sounds like they bought them out (from what I’ve gathered from that thread, but being a forum thread, I would not be surprised if a good deal of hearsay is involved in the information there). And then of course Starbucks bought out Teavana… so I think it’s safe to say it is a very defunct company now.
Another reason to not like Teavana and Starbucks… taking my favorites away. grumble grumble