New English Teas

This was the second tea I tried from a 72-bag (24 per type) multipack in a tin labeled "Traditional English Teas," purchased at a World Market. At first I thought that was the brand, but RateTea had no such thing. Closer look at the back/bottom revealed the actual maker. So, as the Dallas Cowboys quarterback often y...

This was part of a three-tea assortment within a teal-colored tin (also pictured in the photo section) of "traditional English teas" that I got on sale at World Market. Even at normal prices, this came out to around 18¢/bag, which is not too bad in this inflationary era, so I would rate the value fairly high unless q...

I found a novelty tin (Buckingham Palace!) of this tea and bought it on a whim. The packaging has EU-style product labeling, but the 2g (instead of typical UK 3g) teabag fill means this was either intended for sale outside the UK, they're cheaping out, or both. The teabags in this tin were collectively sealed in a myla...

After being highly disappointed by the English Afternoon Tea of the same brand, this was a pleasant surprise. Again, very fine dust/fannings in the teabag, so I wasn't expecting much.

When I brewed the tea though I tasted an astonishingly complex, gentle Ceylon with a distinct high-grown character reminiscent of te...

This teabag just contained dust and fannings. It was surprisingly weak, even when I brewed it for 4 minutes with boiling water, using less than one 8-oz cup with a single teabag.

Aroma weak, nondescript. Smooth...almost no bitterness, and very little astringency. But very little flavor of any sort. Highly disapp...