Tinned Twinings

Karsten,

I haven't bought Twinings in a while (although I always liked their English Breakfast tea), but the last time I checked here in Arizona, they were still selling in tins. I'll check next time I'm in the store. We also have a market

Alan

I got a tin of Darjeeling, in a small neighborhood market, but it was again... too astringent for me to drink plain.

Down South we only have them in the small boxes. I guess it's our style because most tea drinkers use tea bags for the purpose of making sweet-iced tea. heh

Alan,

Thanks for the link. I checked their website and funnily enough they only had exactly those same 4 blends I bought over here, even the prices are almost the same. Maybe those are their bestselling blends. I wonder where all those other great blends are gone, like their "Irish breakfast" and those more exotic varieties of yore.

Karsten

. Thought I would put the Twinings website link here for you - they still do some of the blends that you are after at least according to their website - and you can find out who their distributers are in any country in the world from same website.

regards

Helga

Thanks a lot Helga. As a fan of tinned goodies I´ve had that page bookmarked for ? knows how many years, and once in a blue moon went there to see if they were eventually coming out with some new tins, to no avail ... sniff. I guess I have to get some more tins before they´re all sold out - for old times´ sake.

Karsten [Twinings Earl Grey/HG Ceylon 40/60 mix in tazza grande]

Twining's darjeeling?

--scott

What happened is that Twining's closed down their blending plant in North Carolina a couple years back. All of the Twining's tea you see in the US now is blended in England. The English tins are a somewhat different shape and many of the less-popular blends do not seem to be being imported here.

--scott

I´ve heard of that, but AFAIK those Twinings you could get in Germania have always come straight from England.

Regarding their standard Darjeeling, neither does it seem to be 100% DJ, nor is it the fanciest DJ you could imagine, but at least is has changed very little over many a year. To me the most reliable mittle- of-the-road DJ blend I know of, despite some unknown parts [Assam/ Doaars ?] still a very DJ like character, finicky in some respect, an old fashioned highly oxidated black/red broken, AND fairly brrrrisk - as Mr.Guru would say. IMHO it could pass as kind of a middle-of -the road touchstone or starting point for someone who wants to know what all that DJ fuss is about - hat´s off to the blenders.

Karsten

(This is my first time posting from a Blackberry, so pls forgive any typos)

they carry in the store I'll check for some of the other Twining's products next time I'm there. I also want to remind you that named brand teas are generally blended so the flavor is consistent from year to year.

Alan

Good job so far. Are you posting via google ? I´ll be posting from my old Treo next week, let´s see how that turns out.

Karsten

Yes, posting from Google. I read the newsgroup from several computers; otherwise, I would use a "real" newsgroup reader.

Alan