Mei Leaf
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Pros
- The overall experience was amazing. They give you a thermos for different water temperatures for brewing. And they even let you borrow teawear for your session if you want to use a kyusu or yixing instead of a glass teapot or gaiwan. The...
- I think Don from Mei Leaf fits into the same shoes. Plus his website is interactive and helpful for developing a sense for tasting.
Cons
- They are overpriced for the quality of tea that you get; you can get better tea for cheaper by finding specialty vendors. At the same time, all of their tea is good quality, I haven't found any real exceptions.
- Parent context: As much as I love mei leafs youtube channel I feel like it's one big marketing tool to get people to buy his wears, some of his tasting notes are bizarre and never noticeable in the cup and on the nose Reply: Nothing wron...
- Mei Leaf would be fine for some, and others would find his input off-putting, commercially biased, and at times partly wrong (although in general it's solid, just biased for use as sales).
- There was a Mei Leaf video recently about Matcha Latte and tea quality, whatever. I bailed out after 30sec wondering why do people care about the matcha quality in a latte of all things?
- Parent context: Do you think they are paying for good reviews ? Reply: Their review system is not very transparent, for example, the rating/score isn't published next to the review, the user name doesn't show up, and they didn't publish...
Sentiment
2 positive (17%) · 7 mixed (58%) · 3 negative (25%)
Trust + time weighted score: -12% · raw score -8%
What redditors said (10 of 12)
They are overpriced for the quality of tea that you get; you can get better tea for cheaper by finding specialty vendors. At the same time, all of their tea is good quality, I haven't found any real exceptions.
Parent context: As much as I love mei leafs youtube channel I feel like it's one big marketing tool to get people to buy his wears, some of his tasting notes are bizarre and never noticeable in the cup and on the nose Reply: Nothing wrong with having a big marketing channel, but the tasting notes are absolutely bizarre.
Mei Leaf would be fine for some, and others would find his input off-putting, commercially biased, and at times partly wrong (although in general it's solid, just biased for use as sales).
The overall experience was amazing. They give you a thermos for different water temperatures for brewing. And they even let you borrow teawear for your session if you want to use a kyusu or yixing instead of a glass teapot or gaiwan. The tea is expensive but it is a nice option for the teas that are not sold at my local teahouses.
There was a Mei Leaf video recently about Matcha Latte and tea quality, whatever. I bailed out after 30sec wondering why do people care about the matcha quality in a latte of all things?
Parent context: Do you think they are paying for good reviews ? Reply: Their review system is not very transparent, for example, the rating/score isn't published next to the review, the user name doesn't show up, and they didn't publish all the reviews that I made. However, I didn't post any bad reviews, most of their teas were pretty good.
Almost all their teas are overpriced compared to western-facing specialty tea vendors located in China, as well as compared to European specialty tea vendors.
From my personal experience, the biggest red flag I noticed was the blatant false reviews on the website. The teas I reviewed never got posted either.
I've found the teas to be wonderful but is it overpriced, especially puerh tea, the average cake is going for over 200 dollars AUD.
Mei Leaf (hit or miss - Don is a very entertaining guy to watch on YouTube though)
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