An anonymous contributor, signing himself “An Opinionated Englishman”, took umbrage at some passing mention of Lipton tea that I made a while back, and sent me a couple of boxes of genuine English tea from some place called Whittard of Chelsea.
Whoa. There really is a huge difference.
This is terrible. I can never go back to drinking the domestic stuff now, and am going to have to go looking for a local source of imported teas. Darned snooty Englishmen, waking me up to reality. How dare they?
It’s encouraging to see people so excited about tea. There is really a huge difference between great tea and mediocre tea. All of you all may be interested in a tea website I’ve been working on for some time:
http://ratetea.net
Not only does it have user-generated ratings and reviews, but it has a lot of information on varieties of tea, tea-producing regions, and some health information. I’ve made an effort to identify the sources of the information and cite scientific studies published in peer-reviewed journals when possible.
Hopefully, people interested in getting more into tea, learning about tea, and locating high-quality teas will find this site very useful! Enjoy!