"elgoog" > wrote in message
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> <<You mean when you walk in to buy or ordering from them?>>
>
> Yes, I mean walking in to a brick-and-mortar establishment. You know
> the real, physical world. I find so much information online about
> Internet tea stores and reviews of teas sold online. I am left
> wondering, what about finding good loose leaf tea in stores. One of the
> things I enjoyed about coffee was going to the stores and picking out
> the beans. I want to know about tea, find tea stores and be able to
> experience that same sense of knowing what I am looking for and
> predicting and recognizing quality.

One thing that I look for is the expiration date on the boxed teas. In one
store, *every* box I checked was expired several months to over a year. I
walked out never even looking at their loose tea figuring that if they
weren't serious enough about tea on the whole to keep their boxed items
reasonably current, there wasn't any sense in my expecting their loose teas
to be fresh.

> I realize that my geen tea sampler from Adagio contains teas that have
> been reviewed from horrid to average. The horrid one is, well horrid.
> Still, the average tea is the best I have ever tasted. I don't mean to
> knock Adagio, it just happens their best teas aren't in the sampler I
> bought.

Thanks. I'm putting together an order and was thinking that I'd be better
off selecting samples individually.

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