Rating: - Tea Chest Review - More for the tea than the chest
This item is what it mostly says it is. Most of the tea flavors are decent (I especially like the Peach Tea, but dislike the Orange Spice Tea). Recently these Bentley Tea Chests have been on sale at Amazon for quite decent prices. Don't expect too much from the box though. It's a paper covered pine box with a couple of handles and a front catch. It does have a very thin velvet lining inside, but I wouldn't count on the inside box cells to isolate flavors or prevent oxidation, so foil or paper covered tea bags are a must for this tea chest. Overall a decent value if you buy it on a good sale.
Rating: - Just confirming the review already here.
Indeed, the tea is okay, the box is a joke. The full price is outrageous for this low quality clumsily decorated cardboard. Consider buying only for the price of tea, say for $15.
Rating: - Good tea/cheap chest
The tea assortment in the chest is excellent, vey tasty. However, the chest is very poorly put together. The applique material does not line up and there are numerous rough edges. Not wht I would want to display on the countertop.
Rating: - Misleading Advertising
Hand decorated? Maybe by slave labor in some 3rd world country. I should have read all the reviews more carefully. The only "exotic" thing about this purchase is probably the chemicals used in gluing the cheap paper onto the chest. There are glue splatters all over the top, and scratches on the inside. The paint on the corners looks like it was done by 3rd graders. I purchased this primarily for the chest, and could easily forgive the poor selection in flavors if the chest was worth more than $10. As it stands, I'm going to try to return this to Amazon ASAP.
Rating: - Disappointing
This was a very disappointing purchase. The 'Premium Hand Decorated Exotic Wooden Tea Chest' appears to be pine decorated with printed paper. Although the print is very nice, the description of it is a bit overblown.
The tea inside was okay. Some of the combinations of flavors just didn't go well together, and often drowned the flavor of the tea.
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