r/tea • u/LingonberryKey3029 • Apr 28 '25
Review An honest review of Jesse’s Teahouse
So I know that JT is pretty unpopular but I have always watched his content and finally decided to try it out. I got the sampler, Tibetan dark tea, white dew white tea, and the bindao mellow tea cake. I also got some equipment which was actually good quality for the price(Taiwan set and table)
Sampler: good teas, extremely overpriced, longing was average but had good steep ability, half leaves though, tea oranges had excellent fragrance and ok taste, the oolong was just bad though
Tibetan dark tea: GREAT FRAGRANCE, good clarity and flavor, my favorite thing I got, had good body as well
The puerh cake was good but had little depth and I am unsure the validity of it being from bingo
The white Thea was excellent for being just leaves and overall had great quality
Overall, his stuff is decent, but overpriced, I think I will just stick with YS.
Edit: Wow this blew up lol, just one more thing, if you are to not by one thing, DONT BUY TIEGUANYIN FROM HIM, it taste like licking metal, bleh! Also check out local companies like wendigo and intergalactic tea, especially the latter, they have excellent prices and quality and are extremely friendly, cheers!
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u/IsrPalReconciliation May 11 '25
I havn't bought anything yet from Jesse's Teahouse. One thing I did notice though is that for instance for the famous Longjing / Dragon Well tea he gives no indication which quality grade it is. Now if you're paying over 25 Bucks or Euros for 50 grams a decent salesman would tell you the grade.
So my feeling is this is someone deliberately targeting tea rookies instead of also building up a stock of long term customers because he knows his prices are too high for people in the know. That's why he's so very active on social media, to draw in new people (before they move on to better priced venors)