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Adagio Teas

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

As men­tioned pre­vi­ously, I signed up with Ada­gio Teas for their Link Reward offer. Over the week­end I received an email from one of their reps, thank­ing me for the link and say­ing that my reward was on the way. Pri­vately, I was hav­ing doubts as my track record with free­bies, trial offers and rebates is extremely poor.

Then today after a pretty aver­age day at the office, I got home to find that my door­mat was hid­ing some­thing. The first thought in my head was “I won­der what eBay auc­tion Ariesna won this time?” Much to my delight, my first thought was wrong and instead I was hold­ing a pack­age from Ada­gio! I hur­ried inside, tossed the gro­ceries into the fridge and cracked open the box. I was most pleased to find that an 8oz tin of yun­nan jig tea and one of Adagio’s Inge­nu­iTEA teapots. After tak­ing the Inge­nu­iTEA out of the box and plas­tic wrap­ping, I could feel that the plas­tic it’s made of has a solid feel to it; so I don’t think I’ll be acci­den­tally break­ing it any time soon. Still, if I were going to pur­chase one of these things, I think I would pre­fer the main body be made of a heavy-duty glass. *shrug* I don’t know that glass would really work any bet­ter but it would give the Inge­nu­iTEA a bet­ter heft and feel­ing of qual­ity. Still, it looks to be a qual­ity prod­uct and it’s def­i­nitely a very clever idea. You toss your loose tea leaves into the Inge­nu­iTEA, fill it with hot water, wait for it to brew and then set it on top your cup. The Inge­nu­iTEA will then drain your fresh cup of tea into the cup for you; while auto­mat­i­cally strain­ing out the leaves. If you’re still con­fused; go watch the flash video on their web­site and it’ll all make sense.

Ada­gio has this to say about their yun­nan jig tea:

Black tea from the Yun­nan region of China. Yun­nan tea is eas­ily iden­ti­fied by its lus­cious soft leaves, and a unique pep­pery taste. It is a very for­giv­ing tea; will not taste bit­ter when over-steeped. Yun­nan tea is arguably the most under­rated of Chi­nese vari­eties. If you have yet to try it, we would rec­om­mend it highly. Our ‘Yun­nan Jig’ would make a great introduction.

I found it slid smoothly across the palate. When it ini­tially hits the tongue there’s an earthy fla­vor to it, but swirling it around in my mouth for a bit that fla­vor set­tles down to be more smoky than earthy. After swal­low­ing the tea, there’s a slight but dis­tinct hint of black pep­per. The first cup I made was too hot, so I threw a bit of ice in it but the tea tasted… off once it was cold. It wasn’t just being watered down; it just didn’t taste right. On the 2nd cup, I was more care­ful on how hot I let the water get and this time drank the tea with­out ice. That worked con­sid­er­ably bet­ter and I’d def­i­nitely rec­om­mend this to any­body who enjoys drink­ing black tea.

So the final ver­dict? Ada­gio seems to be a very cool com­pany with tasty tea and a nifty gad­get for brew­ing the tea up. Does this mean CoffeeBear.net will become TeaBear.net? No, but I’ve no doubt I’ll be buy­ing more tea from them once this sam­ple runs out (some of those green teas and the fla­vored teas sounds really good.). :)

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