Decaffeinated tea

Good luck. I've been on the same search for a couple years and haven't found anything that's very good. The best I've found for an unflavored black tea is, amazingly, a bag tea. It's called Tea-Lover's Decaf and can be found at leaves.com. It actually has some flavor and aroma unlike the other decafs I've tried. I often resort to a flavored decaf since the unflavored ones usually have no taste. The best I've found in that department is the peach apricot decaf from houseoftea.com. I just tried a apricot flavored decaf green tea from specialteas.com that isn't bad.

Agalena

I have found that the decaffeinated teas from The Republic of Tea (

) do not lose much taste or aroma at all... they use a natural high-pressure CO2 proccess to decaffeinate, unlike most companies which use ethyl acetate. Unfortunately, they do not have any straight black decaf teas, but I do suggest their "Earl Greyer" decaf. Also, have you ever tried Rooibos, or "red" tea? It is a naturally caffeine-free herbal tea, full of antioxidants, and in plain form tastes, I think, very much like strong black tea. A third option is to decaffeinate the tea yourself: pour boiling water over the tea into the cup, then immediately discard that liquid. Pour boiling water over the tea again and steep as usual. Ninety percent of the caffeine in tea is released with the first washing-over of boiling water. I am sensitive to caffeine and have tried this method many times with much success.

Is this 90% figure from your own measurements? If not, you may be less sensitive to caffeine than you think. Please check Google Groups for a long thread regarding *measured* caffeine in the cup.

/Lew