I got this in this month’s Tea Sparrow box – a neat change of pace from the flavoured teas! I spent a bit of time trying to decide where to leave this tasting note, since there are duplicate entries in the database, this one under “The Mountain Tea co” and the one under “Mountain Tea”. If you look at those two company listings, one has 25 teas listed under it and the other has 19, with a fair bit of duplication. What a mess! This one has a lot more tasting notes, which is why I chose it.
This is an interesting tea! With dark oolongs I tend to assume they’re going to be heavily roasted, but this one is actually just heavily oxidized – I don’t detect any roastiness at all. It is a neat blend of malty and floral, with a light, fruity note that I convinced myself was apple after reading the description. :) It’s like a light, surprisingly floral, black tea.
Flavors: Apple, Floral, Malt
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Btw, are you enjoying Tea Sparrow?
Yes! It’s 4 teas per month, usually one each of black/green/rooibos/herbal, 15-20g of each. They get them from all over, so it’s a neat chance to try teas from various companies without having to pay for international shipping. Having said all that, I think I may have to put my subscription on hold while I focus on drinking down my crazy tea excess, lol.
Sounds good! I’ve been considering them or Amoda but can’t make up my mind, so end up with neither haha. Both had a booth at a tea fest a couple years ago and the employees were really nice. You can tell they love what they do.
Just to make your decision harder, there’s also Postal Teas: https://postalteas.com/
3 bags of tea per month, all from the same producer, mostly small Canadian companies.
They say “producer” on the postal teas site, but I’ve been poking around and some of the places are Metropolitan resellers. Some of them do blend their own, but it’s always disappointing to me when companies talk about producing teas, but they only have a few of their own blends.
I wondered about that, since some of them seemed to be “tea shops” (mostly in Toronto) rather than tea blenders.
I have nothing against Metropolitan, but I can get them a lot cheaper in a visit to Victoria than ordering from a lot of these websites! :)
See, I don’t have a local (or even semi-local) tea shop, so it’s actually nice to get samples to try. I’m always hoping to find places that’ll sell Metropolitan tea online in small quantities – so many seem to be 50-100g only. :)
Yeah, even Georgie’s (my dealer is Bear With Me!) only sells “tin” sizes. The smallest tin is about 50g. (If you don’t buy a tin, he fills one up to the MAX then dumps it into a foil bag. SO MUCH TEA!) There’s a cafe out in Hope that carries most of the teas, so you can get a tea to go. I’ve done that a couple times, passing through.
Btw, are you enjoying Tea Sparrow?
Yes! It’s 4 teas per month, usually one each of black/green/rooibos/herbal, 15-20g of each. They get them from all over, so it’s a neat chance to try teas from various companies without having to pay for international shipping. Having said all that, I think I may have to put my subscription on hold while I focus on drinking down my crazy tea excess, lol.
Sounds good! I’ve been considering them or Amoda but can’t make up my mind, so end up with neither haha. Both had a booth at a tea fest a couple years ago and the employees were really nice. You can tell they love what they do.
Just to make your decision harder, there’s also Postal Teas: https://postalteas.com/
3 bags of tea per month, all from the same producer, mostly small Canadian companies.
They say “producer” on the postal teas site, but I’ve been poking around and some of the places are Metropolitan resellers. Some of them do blend their own, but it’s always disappointing to me when companies talk about producing teas, but they only have a few of their own blends.
I wondered about that, since some of them seemed to be “tea shops” (mostly in Toronto) rather than tea blenders.
I have nothing against Metropolitan, but I can get them a lot cheaper in a visit to Victoria than ordering from a lot of these websites! :)
See, I don’t have a local (or even semi-local) tea shop, so it’s actually nice to get samples to try. I’m always hoping to find places that’ll sell Metropolitan tea online in small quantities – so many seem to be 50-100g only. :)
Yeah, even Georgie’s (my dealer is Bear With Me!) only sells “tin” sizes. The smallest tin is about 50g. (If you don’t buy a tin, he fills one up to the MAX then dumps it into a foil bag. SO MUCH TEA!) There’s a cafe out in Hope that carries most of the teas, so you can get a tea to go. I’ve done that a couple times, passing through.