What is your favourite tea?

[dwg]

"Lady Jane Grey" Tea is very good

[Lachlan09]

Is it good ? Could you lose your head over it ?

[dwg]

Is it good ? Could you lose your head over it ?

Only if she is as good looking as my wife LOL

[Lachlan09]

Lady Jane would have big stitch marks on the scar around her neck

But don't tell her a joke - she might laugh her head off ! Ha ha ha bump !!

[Lallans]

I enjoy the western black teas that are designed to be taken with milk, sugar, etc, if desired (for Canadians, I recommend an almost-as-good substitute for the late lamented Red Rose loose tea, which is Lipton's Yellow Label loose tea). Via the Japanese tea ceremony, which for me was a bit of a wedge thing, I developed a taste for Asian blends- the real ones made for Asians and not what the big companies sell as such. Once you find them, the trick is to abandon your previous habits about water termperature and steeping times, etc, and try the ways a good vendor recommends- it doesn't take long to appreciate they know what they're about. The Japanese teas are relatively easy to find but thanks to a short-lived tea shop in my home area, I also learned about Taiwanese High Mountain oolong teas. They actually have a remarkably variety once you find a good store- the only one I can personally recommend is the Ten Ren Tea Store on Dundas St in Toronto, Ontario. Ten Ren stores have a website but in my experience you only get the best stuff if you vist one of their big stores in person, with a big bag of money. They tend to sound you out with offers of ordinary teas that Westerners are used to, but once they decide you're serious about oolongs, and if they have the staff time available, they may offer you a tasting that embodies the Taiwanese Chinese tea ceremony.

[Tartan Tess]

Yogi Teas.....Licorice spiced Egyptian tea

[Dixiecat]

Tea. Yummy delicious tea. Mmmmmmmm.

I'm very fond of black teas. My relative think that the love of tea means I'll drink anything 'herbal'. Blech. No way.

When I first moved out, I took my tea with milk and sugar, but found that I couldn't keep milk fresh so I started taking my tea black. It was terrible when I visited the south of England and found that tea came with milk in it. Blech again. In my opinion the real taste of tea is only discovered when drunk black.

Anyway, there's a tea shop in NYC that sells some wonderful tea and I've still got a bag I save for special occasions.

My faves: Earl Grey, Russian Caravan (very hard to find Twinings blend), and good orange pekoes.