Organic Positively Tea Company, Assam TGFOP Black Tea, Loose Leaf, 16 Ounce

Smells like dung and is overpowering

Absolutely lovely tea, smells divine just in the bag. I bought this to make my own blend of earl grey, saffron, and bergamot tea and it is perfect! Lovely flavor and very fair price for the amount of tea and it being organic. This will be my go to for sure and I am curious to try any others offered by this brand.

This is an outstanding method of “waking up” every morning. Unlike other loose leaf teas, this one has a mild taste but the presentation after the first sip is worthwhile, that is, extraordinary. I recommend it highly, with the right tea ball, of course, for proper immersion.

I suppose it's my bad that I didn't look more closely as to what the meaning of "creme" is or the list of ingredients, but it hardly crossed my mind that I needed to. I figured Earl Grey is Earl Grey. And now in hindsight, it takes an awful lot of searching in the product description that this tea is cut with cornflowers. My first suspicion of something wrong was when I opened the package and found that among the black tea leaves were lots of little blue flecks. The packaging is also blue and at first I thought some of the plastic package had broken off. It took me awahile to figure out it was cut, and that cornflowers can be blue. I'm not clear why this was done other than to bulk up the package, but if it was done for taste - is that the "creme"? - then that would explain why this tea does NOT taste at all like Earl Grey tea. I won't say it's awful. After all how can something with no taste at all be awful. But it is kind of a shock that I can't discern anything like Earl Grey. And the punchline to it is that when I went to return it, it said it is non-returnable. I'll probably end up throwing this out.

I've tried a few of these, so I figured I'd share for anyone curious. • Assam: very good quality and reasonable for the price; one of my favorite • Earl Grey: the bergamot is very strong; might be better with a lighter brewing • English Breakfast: pretty good, but I've had better • Irish Breakfast: very good; definitely one of my favorites; malty and rich; excellent with milk • Lapsang Souchong: absolutely horrid; tastes like ashes from a campfire; I brewed it once because it was so bad • Scottish Breakfast: I was hoping for the same level as the Irish Breakfast, but it's not on par; very granular and a low to mid quality tea • Yunnan: absolutely delicious; a strong contender for the best; much lighter and difficult to mess up; would make a good iced tea