I love a cup of green tea, but would you pay for $2,500 for a bottle of green tea? The company
Royal Blue Tea has offered this "super premium" green tea for a limited time only. Hand-picked from the Shizuoka Prefecture and it is infused with champagne and truffle oil. Only 100 bottles of this special green tea will be made.
I don't know about you but if I were to pay that much for just green tea, it better be good! Besides the fancy bottle, the ingredients to make the green tea don't seem too impressive to me.
If you had the money, would you purchase this green tea? What do you think it would taste like?
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That doesn't make any sense. Why would you hand-cultivate the best tea ever, and then "infuse" it with champagne and truffle oil? That's like buying a Bugatti Veyron and spray painting busty naked women and unicorns all over it.
Champagne doesn't even go well with Truffle oil, nevermind Green Tea. That's a terrible flavor profile, I've tried it before.
And even if it was worth the $2500 alone, without the corrupting elements, there's not enough to warrant the cost. I suppose if you're a person who gets turned on by "Only 100 bottles made!" and think that justifies buying something. At least a Birkin, you can strut around and look fancy. And a good vintage of Chateau Lafite Rothschild actually has value, as does a Audemars Piguet. But a random bottle of tea? I think not.
There are better teas, some aged for hundreds of years, by some old tea masters living on remote mountains in China. Some day I'd like to try one, sure; but not for $2500. Make 10 reservations at Thomas Keller's French Laundry. You'll get more for your palate-money.
Haha, as much as I love green tea, no way would I dish out that amount of cash for it when I can make it for free at home. Premium shmemium...
No
I agree with arenadi. It isn't tea and it sounds disgusting. If I had the money, I'd have the sense to spend frivolously more wisely.
Very interesting! I believe some people still want to try them even tho they're so expensive. The website says there are only 36 bottles available, and the drink is made of green tea and costs 210,000 Yen / bottle (~$2100 US).
Just cuz you put three tasty things together, doesn't mean the end product will be super super super tasty.
It might end up like dog food. (Combo ingredients just mish-mashed.)
ofx not -.-
i definitely wont buy that :D
it wouldn't taste too green tea like anyways.
i agree that the ingredients don't sound to appealing.
I won't buy it but I would taste it if someone gave it to me
it better be good! 2500?! thats insane.. i'll stick with my japanese or lipton tea
People who would buy, the kind of losers with more money than sense who think they have to buy it, this are the cancer of society. Poison the next batch, please.
I've never tried champagne or truffle oil, but from what I have tried of alcohol I really don't like the taste too much. However, I do like green tea. :p
Still, I wouldn't pay $2500 a bottle for anything. My priorities, no matter how much I love green tea, do not involve paying that much. :p However, if you can figure out exactly how they make it, you might be able to make some bootleg version of it for yourself. ^_~
On a side note, I absolutely LOVE that goblet. Totally beautiful and as much as I like green tea, I'd much rather just have that goblet. :p It looks so...elegant, wizard-y and medieval. Even if it isn't. :p
For green tea? NO WAY!! But I'd probably sell my soul for cold cider....
At that price, it had better come with a virgin to pour it for me, then hold the cup to my lips as I sip it.
Nah. I'll get a car instead.
Buy it for me?
lol >>
unbelievable...
If I had the money, it'd be interesting to try!
hell no. money or no money.
If I had the money, I would buy it without a doubt.
If I had more money than I knew what to do with- maybe. I don't know about this particular product-chamagne is hard for me to palate but some of the aged teas mentioned above would very likely be on my high-budget shopping list.
what were these people thinking?
first comes a $100 water. now there's a $2,500 green tea?
@arenadi@xanga - couldn't have said it better myself!! i completely agree!
id rather steal the glass :P
if there are other ingredients added, i wouldn't call it green tea.. but if i could afford it, i'd love to buy one.. just to have tried such a limited edition what-not.. lol