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My curiosity just got out of control and today my tasting pack finally landed! I order online, living in Italy is difficult to find it at all in local shops - we have coffee culture, but I felt in love with mate and it's now my fav company to have in the office. It almost replaced coffee in my daily routine (except for my morning ritual mokka from grandma, that's impossible to beat) and I really like the taste and recently I've got some extra money so I said "yeah why not spend 125€ in mate so you're good for the rest of the season?".
So here we are. Eleven different brands to try. In my life I tasted La Tranquera, Laranjeras, Taragui, Guarani, Verde Mate, Yaguar, El Fuego. Tropical, dulcessa, fuerte, with guarana, chimarrao, so many diff flavours, some were very interesting others were complete trash, but slowly I'm making my culture (I've started drinking it in 2018, regularly only by this winter).
I have a real nice gourd and the bombilla found in a flea market which I only use in the weekend at home, the black ceramic one arrived with the pack (I have a small silicon one for the office but it's like 150ml, the ceramic one is 350ml). Since I have a Chimarrao pack at home i also bought some filters to taste it as its best (tried last sunday with orange juice, you guys are genius!).
Now I need to decide which to start with first. Currently got in stock:
Canarias (classic Te Verde y Jengibre, 1kg each)
Rosamonte Seleccion Especial 1kg
Barao De Cotegipe Export Compuesta 1kg
Selecta Elaborada con Palo Premium 0.5kg
Colon Seleccion Especial 0.5kg
Pajarito Seleccion Especial 0.5kg
Indega Seleccion Especial 0.5kg
Kraus Organic Mate Premium Gourmet 0,5 kg
Verde Mate Fuerte 0,5 kg (for the office) toasted (50g)
Playadito Despalada sin Palo 50g
Liebig Original 50g
unfortunately the Indega package is broken so I might start with that just for this reason, but I'm very excited to try Barao compuesta, Colon and Kraus Organic! Never tried the other brands myself but I heard good things and I think you need to taste by yourself before judge, so give me time and I will let you know what will be the top 5 for me ;)
In the meanwhile, I wanna know if you had any experience with those brands and which one is your favourite and why!
Playadito despalada was a must to try, but was the only one with a proper taste pack (50gs). Now I opened Indega and its suprisingly good!
The fuerte taste too much winey for me. Maybe its the process or the blend but i personally dont like it for a daily use
I've just tried it now, very earthy and grassy, mild-bitter but also persistent, I didn't made a heavy dose as first to try I might refill 3-4 times and try again later in the morning, the first sips were too much bitter now it tastes good!
In europe the biggest one I've tried yet is matemundo, it has a lot of diff brands and mixes. Takes less than a week, ordered wednesday and arrived on monday!
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your website is much better with prices, it got many brands at 2€ off , will try it next time!
Wow it has many brands that matemundo (aka Venusti) that are missing! Def will check out that too, it got also great accessories some nice classic gourdas