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Tea snobs: What's your favourite hot tea?

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Got some tea from India and South Africa (have relatives there). The Nilgiri is excellent. Haven't tried the rooibos (not true tea and I didn't like rooibos last time I tried it, but I'll see if I like it now).

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I'd say Earl Grey. There was a really super delicious one I had in a variety sampler. I think it was called vanilla cinnamon or some damn thing.
 
KMFJD said:
Inspired by the coffee snob thread, what's your go to tea?
There isn't much of a variety here so im stuck with Twinnings Green Tea and a Twinnings Roibos blend.
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Just like coffee, check out single estate specialty teas. I don't know much about Chinese/green tea but for black tea, a few popular brands like Twinnings and Dilmah now have them so they are available. And if you search stores which ship worldwide will pop up.

Look at Darjeeling/Assam varieties and the different flushes/plantings per year. If you're going to buy from Twinnings or Dilmah, don't get the Oolong or other Chinese styles since its not their specialty, I could be wrong but I'm not bothered to try them yet.

Skip the blends and flavored/scented teas (earl grey, jasmine) at least for now.
 
bononos said:
Just like coffee, check out single estate specialty teas. I don't know much about Chinese/green tea but for black tea, a few popular brands like Twinnings and Dilmah now have them so they are available. And if you search stores which ship worldwide will pop up.

Look at Darjeeling/Assam varieties and the different flushes/plantings per year. If you're going to buy from Twinnings or Dilmah, don't get the Oolong or other Chinese styles since its not their specialty, I could be wrong but I'm not bothered to try them yet.

Skip the blends and flavored/scented teas (earl grey, jasmine) at least for now.
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In the US, Republic of Tea is a better source than Twinings for more varieties of tea like "biodynamic" (more sustainable) Darjeeling. They also have good blends like Three Gardens.

My favorite tea is currently still Taylor's of Harrogate - Yorkshire Gold blend.
 
DaveSimmons said:
In the US, Republic of Tea is a better source than Twinings for more varieties of tea like "biodynamic" (more sustainable) Darjeeling. They also have good blends like Three Gardens.

My favorite tea is currently still Taylor's of Harrogate - Yorkshire Gold blend.
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Republic of tea only has 1 black tea single origin product which is non-flavored/spiced up, its an American company so I'm not surprised. Twinnings has at least a half dozen but it looks like they are all sold out on amazon.com but the UK websites are stocked. Dilmah is a Ceylonese company which only has plantations there so it also has only 1 single origin product, although its a type of blend really since the product comes from several plantations in a single region.

I prefer a product where the money is going into producing a singular special flavor instead of trying to maintain a standardized more generic blended flavor.
 
Eh, gimme Lipton and I'm fine. My cabinet is full of many teas left by my past roommates but I usually reach for Lipton unless I go herbal. However day to day, I drink organic dark roast coffee. Stay away from water, never let the stuff pass my lips.
 
sdifox said:
Does that qualify as tea? I don't think there is any actual tea in that. Had plenty of it when I lived in Buenos Aires.
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No, and neither do rooibos or herbal teas qualify if you are being strict about the definition. But yerba mate does have caffeine so it's a little closer to true tea (camellia sinensis) in that regard.
 
Crono said:
No, and neither do rooibos or herbal teas qualify if you are being strict about the definition. But yerba mate does have caffeine so it's a little closer to true tea (camellia sinensis) in that regard.
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I don't count herbals and rooibos as tea.

This is the brand we drank
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I call any hot beverage made from plant pieces, that isn't coffee tea. It rolls off the tongue better than "herbal infusion". If I need to specify, I call real tea "real tea".
 
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