Black
Wildwood Breakfast
A brisk Assam-and-Ceylon base with a whisper of malt. Our best seller since the first market stall in 2016 — it takes milk without falling apart.
Brew: 95°C · 4 min · 1 tsp
$142 oz tin
Boardman, Ohio · Est. 2016
Tea worth the four minutes it asks of you.
Wildwood Steep Co. is a one-room tea house on Wildwood Street. We buy leaf in small lots, blend it by hand in ten-pound batches, and seal it the same week — so what lands in your cup still tastes like the garden it came from.
40+Teas on the wall
10 yrsOn Wildwood St.
48 hrsBlend to seal
4.9/5Local reviews
Who we are
A tea counter, a brass scale, and a stubborn owner.
David Asbury opened the shop in 2016 after fifteen years in food distribution and one very disappointing cup of airport tea. The idea was simple and has not changed: buy less, buy better, and sell it fast enough that it never goes flat on the shelf.
Everything on our wall is loose leaf. Nothing is pre-bagged in a warehouse. We weigh your order in front of you if you come in, or within a business day if you order by phone or email. If a lot doesn't taste right when it lands, we don't put it out — that has cost us money more than once and we'd do it again.
Small-lot sourcingBlended in-houseNo artificial flavoringCompostable pouches
The shelf
Eight of the forty we keep on the wall
Prices are for our standard 2 oz tin — roughly 25 cups. Everything is also sold by the ounce at the counter, and every tin is stamped with its blend date.
Green
Mahoning Mist
Steamed Japanese sencha blended with dried lemon peel and a pinch of spearmint. Bright, grassy, faintly sweet.
Brew: 78°C · 2 min · 1 tsp
$162 oz tin
Oolong
Boardman Amber
A medium-roast Taiwanese oolong. Roasted chestnut and orchid, and it forgives a long steep.
Brew: 90°C · 3 min · 1.5 tsp
$192 oz tin
Herbal
Orchard Row
Caffeine-free rooibos with apple, cinnamon bark and a little vanilla. The one parents buy for the whole house.
Brew: 100°C · 6 min · 1.5 tsp
$132 oz tin
Spiced Black
Nightshift Chai
Cardamom-forward masala chai cut with cracked ginger and black pepper. Built to be boiled with milk.
Brew: 100°C · 5 min · 2 tsp
$152 oz tin
Black
Second Flush Darjeeling
A single-estate muscatel from a small Kurseong garden. Clean, wine-like, best without milk.
Brew: 90°C · 3 min · 1 tsp
$212 oz tin
How an order works
Four steps, no app required
We are a small counter business. Ordering is deliberately old-fashioned, and it works.
Tell us what you like
Call 330-717-1432 or email media@alliceteaspot.com with a rough idea — "strong, takes milk" is plenty to go on. We'll suggest two or three.
We blend and weigh
Your tea is scooped from the working tin, weighed on the brass scale, and stamped with the blend date.
Packed the same day
Sealed in a foil-lined compostable pouch or a tin, boxed with a printed brewing card for each blend.
Shipped or picked up
Flat $5 anywhere in the US, free over $45, or waiting behind the counter within two hours for local pickup.
Why it tastes different
Freshness is the whole trick
Tea is a dried leaf, and dried leaves go stale. Most supermarket tea is nine to eighteen months old by the time it reaches a kettle. Ours is rarely older than three months, because we buy in lots we can actually sell.
- Blend dates on everything. Not a "best by" — the actual day we mixed it.
- Whole leaf, not fannings. You can see what you're drinking.
- Real botanicals. Dried peel, flowers and spice instead of flavor oils.
- Opaque, sealed storage. Light and air are the two things that kill a good leaf.
In their words
What Boardman says
★★★★★“I came in for a gift and left with three tins for myself. David spent twenty minutes talking me through oolongs without once trying to upsell me.”
★★★★★“The Nightshift Chai is the only chai my husband will drink now. We order two tins every month and it always shows up in three days.”
★★★★★“Our café buys the breakfast blend by the pound. Consistent lot after lot, which is more than I can say for our last supplier.”
Common questions
Before you order
Do you ship outside Ohio?
Yes — we ship to all 50 states via USPS Ground Advantage. Flat $5, free over $45. We do not currently ship internationally.
How long does a 2 oz tin last?
Roughly 25 cups at one teaspoon per cup, so about three weeks for a daily drinker. Sealed and out of the light, it holds its character for a good twelve months.
Can I taste before buying?
Always. There's a pot on the counter every day we're open, and we'll brew a small cup of anything on the wall if you ask.
Do you do wholesale or café accounts?
We supply a handful of local cafés and two restaurants. Email media@alliceteaspot.com with your volume and we'll put together pound pricing.
Come by
Contact page & map
2632 Wildwood Street
We're the narrow storefront with the green door, three minutes off Market Street. Street parking out front, and the counter is at ground level with no step.
Phone
330-717-1432
330-717-1432
Hours
Tue–Fri 10–6 · Sat 9–4 · Sun & Mon closed
Tue–Fri 10–6 · Sat 9–4 · Sun & Mon closed