Posted: Nov 30th, '06, 16:49
Congrats on the new tea order! I'm currently waiting on an order myself, and the new TriniTEA, which should be shipping out tomorrow. I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself, to be honest.
I'm sampling the pu-erhs poe & dante (I've recently discovered pu-erh tea...yummy!), plain rooibus, and am getting 4 oz. of the Chestnut tea, which surprisingly is my new favorite flavored tea for the season (sipping it now!). I love the yunnan jig and yunnan gold - I'm not fond of many of Adagio's flavored teas (not "flavored" enough for me - it may just be that I don't like the base tea), but I do love the yunnan's and irish breakfast. I'm working my way through the holiday sampler though, and the gingerbread smells pretty good. The Chestnut truely is wonderful.
As for your fiance...you'll just have to play around with delivery timing. With my husband, I simply time my "tea deliveries" for when he's going to be out of town if possible, or make sure that I get to the mail before he does when I'm expecting tea. That works pretty well. I go on a "tea binge" about once every 6 months or so, and buy tea from all my favorite companies around the same time, restocking my never-empty tea cupboard.
I also have gotten him into tea drinking, which makes him curious about what I've gotten, and whether he'll like any of it or not (he likes stout, full-bodied blacks, no flavors or "lighter" teas). So I make sure to order at least a sample of something he can try, which seems to please him and make him forget that I already have a cupboard full of tea to drink.
I'm sampling the pu-erhs poe & dante (I've recently discovered pu-erh tea...yummy!), plain rooibus, and am getting 4 oz. of the Chestnut tea, which surprisingly is my new favorite flavored tea for the season (sipping it now!). I love the yunnan jig and yunnan gold - I'm not fond of many of Adagio's flavored teas (not "flavored" enough for me - it may just be that I don't like the base tea), but I do love the yunnan's and irish breakfast. I'm working my way through the holiday sampler though, and the gingerbread smells pretty good. The Chestnut truely is wonderful.
As for your fiance...you'll just have to play around with delivery timing. With my husband, I simply time my "tea deliveries" for when he's going to be out of town if possible, or make sure that I get to the mail before he does when I'm expecting tea. That works pretty well. I go on a "tea binge" about once every 6 months or so, and buy tea from all my favorite companies around the same time, restocking my never-empty tea cupboard.
I also have gotten him into tea drinking, which makes him curious about what I've gotten, and whether he'll like any of it or not (he likes stout, full-bodied blacks, no flavors or "lighter" teas). So I make sure to order at least a sample of something he can try, which seems to please him and make him forget that I already have a cupboard full of tea to drink.