Tea Horse review: Panyong Golden Needle

Morning, all! Have you heard of Tea Horse? If you’re a tea lover like me then I think you’ll be interested. I was sent a Tea Horse Taster Box the other month and really liked the concept of getting a selection of surprise tea through the door. The box of tea comes beautifully packaged with 4 teas (15g or 20g), 40 tea filters and lots of information on the teas within your box.

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Each pocket of tea is filled with 15g or 20g of tea. My box contained 4 20g pockets of tea and I really enjoy each one of them. The website suggests that there is enough for 10 – 30 cups from each. I’ve made about 10 cups with Panyong Golden Needle so far and still have over half of the pocket left. I find that this tea doesn’t need a lot of leaves within each filter as it has quite a strong taste. When you come across a tea you can’t get enough of you can simply head over to their shop and buy a full size bag.

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Panyong Golden Needle has quite a sweet, rich taste with clear notes of caramel. This is a thick tea which I drank black and thoroughly enjoyed. I think that if you prefer to have tea with a little milk or cream then this one would work nicely due to the sweet taste. This tea is perfect to have on a cold day as it’s very warming – it would be perfect for the autumn months which are about to kick in.

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Each month the box will also come with 40 tea filters which makes brewing easy if you don’t have a tea strainer.

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There are 3 ways to subscribe with Tea Horse. You can sign up monthly for £11.95, do 3 months at once and pay £35 or you can sign up for the year (£120) and save £35. At the moment I’m doing a lot of saving and don’t feel I can spend £11.95 a month on a box of various teas (as much as I’d love to). However, it’s something that I plan on trying again, maybe as a one of thing now and then. What I see myself doing is buying these boxes as gifts. Christmas is quickly creeping up and I have one or two people in mind who I’d like to get the 3 month package for. These kind of subscription boxes along with beauty and craft boxes make very nice gifts that last for a few months!

Have you tried out a tea subscription service like Tea Horse?

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