I don't know why, but there is a definite difference between US and UK Twinings. I won't touch the US stuff. Although I do have a "source" in London, my state-side source is:
Baltimore Coffee and Tea has a diverse selection of teas. It's worth checking out.
Louise
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You're not crazy!! I lived in the UK for years and find that the US Twinings Earl Grey teabags make a pot that tastes of paper. DISGUSTING!!! And the loose tea blend is only so-so. I'm having to shop about to find something decent.
I suspect a lot of that has to do with freshness... even the stuff sold in the UK has been sitting for a while as it is.
If you want an Earl Grey that is just overpoweringly bergamot, try the Zonin brand. I couldn't drink it, but I wound up making earl grey ice cream with it.
--scott
Even before coming to the U.S. quite a number lf years ago, I remember an extensive description where the different teas came from, when the leaves were picked and how they were then treated, before tea experts like those shopping for Twinings for example tasted samples before deciding which to buy. The top quality was going to England, the rest to the rest of the world. Like the U.S.! Americans did not know anything about tea anyway, why waste excellent tea on them ! This included, if I remember correctly, even tea found in Lipton' teabags. In other words, the difference in quality, raised here, is nothing new, unfortunately. The only way to get real English Teas is by ordering online from England ! And don't fall into less expensive traps like the one I found in the Duty Free Area at Frankfurt Airport recently, where one could get Twinings from Poland !!! Heathrow Airport may be different, I haven't been there for a while.
That seems to be Twinings' strategy for foreign markets, which they probably consider less demanding.
For example, the Twinings tea we get in Italy (where tea is not widely consumed) comes from Poland and it's absolutely vile stuff.
Yes! My son has brought me Earl Gray tea from all over the world and the tea that he brought me from the UK was much better than all the rest.
No your not crazy! I stopped buying twining tea along time ago. The quality is not the same. The British people are tea drinkers they wouldn't put up with this tea thats packaged here in theUSA.
Twining Tea back in the 1980's use to be very good. Queen Mary's Tea was the best . Then I couldn't find that blend at any of the stores. We were at the twining Store in Cape May, I was surprised that they sold small containers of Queen Mary's Tea. I bought two containersof tea,but the tea was definitely not the same . No aroma and no taste very disappointed. Years later we were in Bermuda we stopped at a grocery store there. They sold Twinning breakfast tea in a long package of fifty tea bags different type of packaging. That tea was great! Packaged in Asia.
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