Somehow I ended up at the mall tonight, I hate the mall, so I decided to console myself with a cup of tea from Teavana. Our store recently had a complete staff changeover, so I’ve been trying to give them another shot. I’m actually glad that I did, this is 2 visits in a row where I wasn’t pressed overly hard about buying something. The new staff realizes pretty quickly when someone isn’t interested in buying anything other than what they walked in to buy. In this case I had walked in to buy a single cup of hot tea and walked out 5 minutes later with exactly what I had asked for.
I’ve never actually ordered tea to go from Teavana before, unless they’ve had a promotion, which means I normally don’t get to pick my flavor. I’ve been curious about the quality of their extremely high priced unflavored teas, so I opted for the most expensive at $25 for 2oz or $4.99 per to-go cup.
When they opened up the canister to waft the scent, I was immediately surprised by the dull color of the dry leaf. This tea falls short in the taste department as well, it isn’t nearly as robust tasting as many others I have had and it doesn’t even come close to the quality of teas that I purchase from TeaVivre or Verdant, both of whom are my go-to places for Tie Guan Yin.
The cup of tea was perfectly drinkable, but in my opinion it is overpriced for what you get and was a real let down.
The Thai Mountain Oolong is a bit on the pricier side, like this one, but a bit fuller flavour if you want to try another Oolong. It has that really lovely floral orchid taste, and its very smooth, and not at light as the Monkey Picked.
I do want to give that one a try at some point. I really wish they’d sell teas in smaller amounts with ones like these oolongs.
Yeah it’s too bad sometimes you have to get 50g, in case you hate it and can’t even have one more cup haha. But you can always get a cup to go if you just want to try it once. They’ll even make it in your own thermos if you have one (I hate paper cups, bleh).
Hey there, I’m new to this site, just joined today, and I noticed you mentioned the swap for monkey picked oolong with someone. How does that work if you could help me out. Thank you.
go to the discussion tab then choose the tea swap category or just browse through