This will work. My wife ordered this brand on sale when her usual Assam ran out, and likes it--bearing a more delicate palate than I, she coerces 3 cups from a bag. As with most bagged teas, I drop one in a bigger cup, and steep for more than 5 minutes while occasionally stirring and swishing the bag around with a spoon back and forth in the water, to sweep out the most molecules of flavor possible. Amid such treatment, the tea gets extraordinarily dark, out of proportion to its medium-strong flavor.

While it's not the best Assam I've had ("best" with me being synonymous with "strongest"), it's worth the price, with a reasonably robust, somewhat malty flavor that I've learned is to be expected from a tea of this origin. Not overly bitter, either...firm and flavorful, yet mellow at the same time. I won't raid her stash (lower case "s", as opposed to the tea brand), but will accept her invitation to tea when Taylor's Assam is involved.

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