Cafe con leche today. My two least favorite teas are still sitting on my desk: Darjeeling #22, and Ceylon Sonata. I've got to bite the bullet and spend some serious money on the Golden Monkey, and a few other teas. It will turn into a $50 order by the time I'm done. But I'll have lots of tea, hopefully for longer than a month. If I spend $15 month on the samplers like I've done, then it will turn out to be 15 x 12 = $180/year!
Maybe buying in quantity will help...
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Jan 8, 2008
I mixed the last of my Assam Harmony and Darjeeling...it turned out pretty good. I liked it a lot. It was strange at first, but then it turned out well.
I sent another email to adagio:
Hi Russell,
Thank you for your note. Unfortunately we do not any suggestions for
recycling the sample tins, nor do we offer a recycling program. As you may
know we do offer refills of our larger tins. We know that other customers
have discussed what can be done with used sample tins at www.teachat.com.
Maybe they would be the best people to ask. Hope what little information we
had to offer may be of help :)
Thank you for visiting Adagio Teas!
Kind regards,
Customer Service
http://www.adagio.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:32:07 -0500
To: Adagio Teas
Subject: E-mail
Hello! I wrote you a week or two ago...here's another: what do I do with all
of the tea tins? When they are empty, it seems a shame to have to throw them
in the trash. Do you take them back for recycling? Or do you know if there are
local programs that would?
Thanks for being so great!
Russell
----
They are great. I added my blog to their list o' blogs...so this hopefully means I'll get some readers. I read a few of the other tea blogs with more than 30 posts, and they are nice, with pictures...I wonder where they get those pics from. I haven't put anything nice like that together...not sure I could.
Lately I'm thinking I need to develop some kind of contact out in India...or maybe explore teas grown in the US...wikipedia seems to think that tea is grown here, but I can't imagine where...
I sent another email to adagio:
Hi Russell,
Thank you for your note. Unfortunately we do not any suggestions for
recycling the sample tins, nor do we offer a recycling program. As you may
know we do offer refills of our larger tins. We know that other customers
have discussed what can be done with used sample tins at www.teachat.com.
Maybe they would be the best people to ask. Hope what little information we
had to offer may be of help :)
Thank you for visiting Adagio Teas!
Kind regards,
Customer Service
http://www.adagio.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:32:07 -0500
To: Adagio Teas
Subject: E-mail
Hello! I wrote you a week or two ago...here's another: what do I do with all
of the tea tins? When they are empty, it seems a shame to have to throw them
in the trash. Do you take them back for recycling? Or do you know if there are
local programs that would?
Thanks for being so great!
Russell
----
They are great. I added my blog to their list o' blogs...so this hopefully means I'll get some readers. I read a few of the other tea blogs with more than 30 posts, and they are nice, with pictures...I wonder where they get those pics from. I haven't put anything nice like that together...not sure I could.
Lately I'm thinking I need to develop some kind of contact out in India...or maybe explore teas grown in the US...wikipedia seems to think that tea is grown here, but I can't imagine where...
Sunday, January 6, 2008
1/6/08
I'm running out of tea from Adagio...I'll have to order more. The other day when I had that tea I felt overall much better, rather than simply hyped up on caffeine. I wasn't jittery, or anything else...I was just "up".
Meanwhile, I can't believe I haven't written here for a while. I need to have some of the same teas for here at home, and at work. I miss them when I'm at home. I have the very low quality Darjeeling and Nilgiri from the Soulard market, and I don't like drinking it. Maybe I'll buy some of the Nilgiri from Adagio, if they sell it, and see how it tastes.
I've gone through most of the tea that I bought in about a month. $15/month for tea. Youch! I still have the Darjeeling #22 in the greatest quantity...I'm not real impressed by that one. So I've waited until I'm out of all of the other tea...
Meanwhile, I can't believe I haven't written here for a while. I need to have some of the same teas for here at home, and at work. I miss them when I'm at home. I have the very low quality Darjeeling and Nilgiri from the Soulard market, and I don't like drinking it. Maybe I'll buy some of the Nilgiri from Adagio, if they sell it, and see how it tastes.
I've gone through most of the tea that I bought in about a month. $15/month for tea. Youch! I still have the Darjeeling #22 in the greatest quantity...I'm not real impressed by that one. So I've waited until I'm out of all of the other tea...
Sunday, December 30, 2007
12/30/07 Part II
I had some Yunnan Jig later in the day anyway. Much better. I felt better after I had it.
The letter from the Adagio people:
Hi Russell,
Thank you for your note. I personally haven't had Teavana's Golden Monkey,
but I would be safe in saying that they are of the same quality- however
Teavana decides to mark up the price is their company policy.
Our musical names go with the theme, but for the most part, you can figure
it out by looking at the tea base name, for example- Ceylon Sonata- is the
regular grade of Ceylon black tea, Ceylon Waltz- a bit of a higher quality
of Ceylon. It also helps to look at the price. Many tea companies give the
same teas various names to be creative and to differentiate themselves from
other tea companies- our names are all musical, to go with our company's
name and theme.
We definitely encourage trying out various brands and types of teas in order
to build your pallet and recognize when you're getting ripped off for low
quality tea, and when you're getting a good deal on high quality tea- hope
this information helps! Have fun discovering the world of fine teas. :)
Please visit us again soon,
Adagio Teas
http://www.adagio.com
This is just a great response. I love them more for it.
The letter from the Adagio people:
Hi Russell,
Thank you for your note. I personally haven't had Teavana's Golden Monkey,
but I would be safe in saying that they are of the same quality- however
Teavana decides to mark up the price is their company policy.
Our musical names go with the theme, but for the most part, you can figure
it out by looking at the tea base name, for example- Ceylon Sonata- is the
regular grade of Ceylon black tea, Ceylon Waltz- a bit of a higher quality
of Ceylon. It also helps to look at the price. Many tea companies give the
same teas various names to be creative and to differentiate themselves from
other tea companies- our names are all musical, to go with our company's
name and theme.
We definitely encourage trying out various brands and types of teas in order
to build your pallet and recognize when you're getting ripped off for low
quality tea, and when you're getting a good deal on high quality tea- hope
this information helps! Have fun discovering the world of fine teas. :)
Please visit us again soon,
Adagio Teas
http://www.adagio.com
This is just a great response. I love them more for it.
12/30/07
So I forgot to put in the response email from Adagio. Ooops. Meanwhile, more Christmas tea: orange, lemon, some other fruits, and spices...just masks the natural tea flavor I like. It seems that I probably should be putting sugar in that tea with all those normally sweet things (except the lemon, of course). It does seem to be premium quality tea. I used my new teapot. It's an improvement in one area: the top is large enough for me to put my whole hand in so I can clean the pot. But it drips something fierce when you pour it. So my search for teapots goes on.
Today was the Ceylon Sonata. Ho hum. I should have gone for the Yunnan Jig...I needed more flavor, more "kick"...
Today was the Ceylon Sonata. Ho hum. I should have gone for the Yunnan Jig...I needed more flavor, more "kick"...
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