What is your favorite tea?

I sort of don't consider it real tea if it's flavored. My favorite is a Ceylon. However, I'm also guiltily drinking a Christmas tea with lots of clove in it. Toci

I'm drinking a green tea. I don't know what it is specifically. Since my tastes change, I might have a favorite to report tomorrow.

LOL - I don't consider it real tea unless there's real tea in it.

My absolute favorite is ti kuan yin. I also love rooibos, particularly earl grey rooibos. Earl Grey tea makes me sick for some reason, but with earl grey rooibos I can get a good bergamot flavor without feeling ill afterwards.

My favorite tea today is Yunnan Jin Cha from Tao of Tea (I think).

Alan

My favorite tea at the moment is "Cold Summit," (DongDing) roasted, rich, and fruited, brewed to strength, and drunk in a gulp to fill the mouth and throat. Yum. Gotten from The Tea Gallery in NYC. Michael

Hands down, Makaibari tea.

Taiwanese oolong, as a rule.

Alex

I've been in a blissful rut of three: Huo Shan Huang Ya (Yellow tea), Bi Lo Chun, and a heavier roasted Shui Xian in that order. I'm just now starting to want to break it after quite a few months. Most likely it will be to Chinese blacks which are an area I'm not all that familiar with and want to explore.

- Dominic

P.S. You may want to try Mlesna brand "Monk's Blend" as it is a nice mix of pomegranate and vanilla.

Still alternating between longjing and tieguanyin, would need to finish my white teas supply soon before next season comes.

Julian

fruited, brewed to strength, and drunk in a gulp to fill the mouth and throat. Yum. Gotten from The Tea Gallery in NYC.

I second that. I wish I could find a cheaper approximate, but I am savoring the little bit I have left. This tea has so much flavor and aroma that sometimes I have wondered if there was some sort of external flavoring added to the tea. I had a vaguely similar oolong from Hou De but I forget the name. It was much cheaper and less fruity, but seemed to me similarly oxidized. This kind of darker oolong is what I'm liking right now.

Single estate teas are never the same throughout the year. It just cannot be!. My favourite thus far is WaghBakri's D'Ling Organic Darjeeling Green Teas.

Jayesh Pandya.

PG Tips is my all-time favorite.

Any black [green-black, semi-red, ...] Darjeeling that leaves no doubt as to where it comes from - tastewise. I recently moved down to the Bavarian alps and I´m still amazed about the quality of the tap water they got down here. My DJs and some funny Oolongs really seem to like it BUT my Assams don´t. Oh well, you can´t have it all ...

Karsten [back in Eastfrisia/NW Assam for the xmas holidays]