Yunnan

So I had some Yunnan. Nothing to write home about. It tastes similar to the Assam tea that I drink at home from Teavana. The leaves are long, unbroken, and almost grey-ish green-ish, with some golden flakes of leaves in there, too. I wasn't sure how much to put in my little cup sized tea strainer. I may have put too much in there to get the flavor, and just made strong tea...but not too strong tea. I'll try the "Black Gold" next, just because the name sounds interesting, and the Golden Monkey is just waiting for me...ok, so I've named 3 of the 5 teas that I got. Darjeeling is one more, and then...I can't remember the other one.

And another thing: they give you two free samples, and one of the samples isn't the one I ordered. I already have the Green Dragon one...whatever the full name is. Why would I order that?

I have so much of this tea I need to figure out a way to nicely store it at home and have some for work, too. Back to my tins idea. Sigh. I just don't want to have to buy some when I get them...but then I have to wash them, relabel them...ugh. And the ones I have are only one ounce anyway. Ugh.

I got my tea today

So I got my tea today. I was outside playing with my son when the UPS truck showed up. He's 3 years old, and very smart. He said I was excited to get my tea. He even said that to the UPS driver: my daddy's excited to get his tea! He wanted me to open the box right there on the on the driveway, so I did. But I had us go inside to actually open the packs. So they're soft, envelope packs, and I apparently got 5 of them. I don't have them with me right now, so I can't say what they are. Anyway, I opened each one to smell them, and they all smelled the same, which I was not expecting. One cool thing was that the bags have this little blue plastic measuring spoon, with markings for 5 ml, or 10 ml, a teaspoon and tablespoon, I believe. But I'm not sure how useful in measuring tea this thing is, given the way tea doesn't have a uniform density, like sugar or water.

Maybe having them in the tins (like Adagio) does something...I don't know. My son picked out the Yunnan for me to drink first. A few of them were really dusty in the bags (it was dusty inside the bags :-P). I wonder when I get larger amounts from Adagio if it'll be the same. Hmmm...

I was thinking that Adigio could sell the first order of teas in tins, and then subsequent orders for a little bit less, and send them in the envelopes, so that way you get them on how cool it is to get the tins, and then make it cheaper to stay with them. And you keep the labels and types of teas consistent over time. And the wastage isn't such a problem, either. I have tins I don't know what to do with, and they're not recyclable. Same issue with the Twinings teas that are sold in stores in tins.