TeabloomStay-Hot Glass French Press – Insulated 27-Ounce (800 mL) Loose Tea Steeper and Coffee Maker – Connoisseur's Choice

looks great, very reasonably priced. holds just the right amount of tea. Five stars all way.

This pot is easy to use and produces a flavorful cold brew tea. I have used a variety of loose leaf and bag teas and all have come out well. I have not tried hot brew so I can't speak to that. My only concerns are that it is glass, so unsure about long-term durability, and the size is a little small. My husband and I can easily drink an entire batch in just two regular-size glasses, so not great if you want refills. Otherwise, I really like it.

Cute but I wish the lid fit more securely on top. The glass is also kinda fragile. I always think I'm going to beak it. But haven't yet.

I tested the Teabloom Louvre against my old standby, the Bodum Brazil.Both work perfectly and have near identical screens to press the grounds to the bottom after the requisite four minutes.With an ambient air temperature of 70° and a near boiling 25 ounces of water poured into each one, a timer was started when the water in the French press reached exactly 200°Teabloom was 171° at 20 minutesBodum was at 165° at 20 minutesTeabloom was at 156° at 40 minutesBodum was at 145° at 40 minutesTeabloom was at 145° at 60 minutesBodum was at 133° at 60 minutesThe Teabloom did not drop to the Bodum’s 133° temperature until a full 90 minutes!BOTTOM LINE: The insulated glass keeps coffee at a drinkable temperature about 50% longer than a single wall glass French press.If your coffee ritual only lasts 30 minutes, the 9° temperature difference may not matter to you. If your coffee session pushes an hour or a bit more, you’ll love the insulated version.NOTE: your actual coffee temps will be A BIT LOWER since you’ll be drinking the coffee and the smaller volume of joe remaining in the press will cool faster than a full press.

Purchased this as a gift for a family member. She loved it! It came in one piece without any cracks or nicks. Works great for hot tea and very easy to clean

Great way to steep more than one cup when you don’t want to use a fancy pot.

I like the look of the kettle. The double lining keeps tea hot. It’s easy to use and dispose of the tea leaves

[No compensation of any kind was received in connection with this review.]The Teabloom Louvre is an attractive tea press; you'll probably receive compliments from guests who see it. And most likely, it will make tea of just the sort you prefer --- for a while. So why 2 stars?First, the vendor claims (more than once) that the capacity of this press is 1L (about 34 fl oz). Nonsense. Measure carefully (e.g., with a digital scale; 1 mL H2O = 1 g): you will manage to put in 1L of H2O *only* if you start with the Louvre completely empty and then fill it to the top rim. But to actually make tea, you'd need to put in some tea leaves and then insert the plunger; it's physically impossible to do that with 1L of H2O in place. Also, you might wish to move the press here or there, and not splash boiling tea about. In fact, as used to make tea, the real capacity of the Louvre is near 800 mL, around 27 fl oz.Surely the vendor knows this fact, but opts to claim its tea press has 1L capacity. Yet vendors of competing tea gear boldly disclose both types of capacity in their product descriptions. So the 1L claim here amounts to simple vendor dishonesty, a gambit common among internet service providers.Second, the business end of the plunger does not wear well. With use, the wire screen begins to stretch and deform and, quite soon, tea leaves become ensnared by it. You'll spend a lot of time/effort attempting to clear away those dead leaves whenever you empty the press. Replacement screens are, seemingly, not available.Third, you might select the Louvre for its double-walled design, in hopes your tea might stay warmer longer; I certainly did. So, does the tea actually keep warm any longer? A little, but not as much as you'd really like. An hour or so after the steeping has ended, you'll be filling your tea mug and putting it into the microwave to get a truly hot beverage. And that small gain in warm time comes at a price; read on.Fourth --- and partly due to the double-wall design --- this press is fragile. No, I mean REALLY fragile; allow me to explain. My daily routine is to make 800 mL of breakfast tea, allowing the leaves to steep for 5 minutes. I have been very careful not to damage this press; it has suffered no physical abuse. But a couple of months ago, I noticed a micro-crack near the top of the inner cylinder. No force was ever applied in that region except by the plunger. Mind you, this was a TINY crack: you'd need very good vision and just the right lighting to see it. A few weeks later, I detected another such crack, again in the inner cylinder not far from the first.Those tiny cracks seemed inconsequential, until this morning. About 3 minutes of the steeping step had passed when I heard a loud POP! I whirled around to find my batch of tea sprayed all over the kitchen counter, with hot tea and tea leaves dripping down, and into the cabinetry. And there in the midst of the mess was a nearly perfect circle of thin glass --- what had been, until quite recently, the bottom of the inner cylinder.Simply, boiling water will heat the air between the inner and outer press walls, creating pressure. There is a hydrophobic vent intended to relieve such pressure, and it worked --- until this morning, about 9 months after this press went into service. A reasonable guess: there were more micro-cracks near the bottom of the inner cylinder, too small for me to see but enough to make the inner cylinder unable to handle the pressures allowed by that vent.This is a distinct flaw of the double-wall design, and of the thin glass used in this press. I took a micrometer to that circle of broken glass, the former press bottom: the thickness varies over the range 1 -- 1.5 mm. Glass that thin will be quite fragile. Worse, the plunger will routinely stress the cylinder bottom so that nearby micro-cracks become rather likely.Finally, add that this press is pricey for what it does. There are much less expensive, yet still attractive glass objects for making tea; few of these are cursed with a design that encourages a literal kind of tempest in a teapot.Think of the Louvre press as akin to an STD: when it enters your life it is associated with some enjoyment, brief and minor, but in the longer term it's something you should want to avoid.