>HotForTea gmail.com> wrote:

>>This past Tuesday I was at Swim Cafe in Chicago for an Ineeka Tea
>>Tasting. I think I have a new favorite tea. Ineeka Tea was founded in
>>2005 however the Goel family has been growing tea 1861. The family has
>>about 12,000 acres in India and Ineeka in Chicago, where the company
>>has it's headquarters, gets regular shipments to package for the
>>American market.

>
>This looks a whole lot like a promotional puff piece. It really does
>look sleazy when vendors post fake ads here pretending to be satisified
>customers.
>
>I will say that most of the Inkeeka products aren't tea at all. In fact,
>the only actual tea of theirs that our local grocery carries is their
>Darjeeling.
>
>The Darjeeling is okay. It's a little more grassy than I would like, but
>it does taste like a real Darjeeling even if it's not in the same league
>as the Rohini second flush or the stuff Lochan is selling.
>
>The silly metal boxes and overpriced bags are a problem, though, and the
>goofy self-supporting bag would be fine for commercial food service use
>but only fit into a limited number of cups and won't fit into a teapot.
>
>It's not bad stuff, and I have bought it occasionally because sometimes I
>like having the bags when I travel, but it's pheneomenally expensive for
>what it is.
>--scott
>
>--
>"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."