Originally Posted by
salut0
One more suggestion: Upton is a good place to get good quality leaf tea in the USA
Loose Leaf Tea From Around The World - Upton Tea Imports -- but they don't have the malty-tasting kinds of BOP Assam which we like for our "standard" drinking tea (the Assams we tasted from their samplers were either too fancy or too insipid). Only the UK supermarket brands provide that... B-)
Upton Tea is indeed very good, but for a similar price and willing to ship to the USA try
www.imperialteas.co.uk (a single, small shop on Steep Hill in Lincoln, UK with an owner who travels to the estates and chooses the teas he stocks personally). I have been buying tea from them for 25 years and importing it to the US for almost 20.
And for those recommending PGTips and Twinings, etc many of these are not the same when bought in the US as they would be if bought in the UK (they use cheaper tea - dust - since Americans don't even care to use boiling water in their tea
. Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Assam tea bags are the best / cheapest we have found.