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replying to Piculet, Alexandra Brunel wrote:

piculet32 wrote:

I visited the Twinings shop in the Strand this past summer and stocked
up on tea to bring back home to the States with me. There seems to be
a much more extensive selection of Twinings blends available in the UK
than what we get here, but there were also the familiar popular
favorites such as English Breakfast and Earl Grey.

I have been a happy Twinings customer many years. I was surprised when
I got home to find that the tea I had purchased in London tasted much different than the Twinings I was used to getting here in America. The British version seemed to have a much richer flavor, but I thought at
first it might just be my imagination.

Therefore, I decided to do a taste test. I ordered some of the US
Twinings English Breakfast tea bags from their website, figuring that
it would be fresher coming directly from Twinings rather than from the supermarket. I made two 20 oz. pots of tea. The first pot contained
the British tea, using two tea bags. The second pot contained three US
tea bags (because there is less tea per bag in the US version). I
figured that would allow for any differences in strength.

I concluded that the British version is much better than its US
counterpart - which I cannot understand, because although the US tea is packed in North Carolina, it is, according to the label, blended in
London. Therefore, Twinings English Breakfast should be the same
throughout the world, except perhaps for the packaging, right? But I
am more convinced than ever that these are two different blends of tea.

I also tried the same experiment with Twinings Earl Grey, and while the difference is less prounounced, there IS still a difference. As a
result, I seem to have lost my taste for Twinings' US offerings and
when my supply runs out will probably only purchase the imported
versions online.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I just crazy??

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.
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Alexandra Brunel <7267f4609f0437938ad701c38f8cb3fe_216@example.com> wrote:

piculet32 wrote:

Therefore, I decided to do a taste test. I ordered some of the US
Twinings English Breakfast tea bags from their website, figuring that
it would be fresher coming directly from Twinings rather than from the
supermarket. I made two 20 oz. pots of tea. The first pot contained
the British tea, using two tea bags. The second pot contained three US
tea bags (because there is less tea per bag in the US version). I
figured that would allow for any differences in strength.

I concluded that the British version is much better than its US
counterpart - which I cannot understand, because although the US tea is
packed in North Carolina, it is, according to the label, blended in
London. Therefore, Twinings English Breakfast should be the same
throughout the world, except perhaps for the packaging, right? But I
am more convinced than ever that these are two different blends of tea.

I also tried the same experiment with Twinings Earl Grey, and while the
difference is less prounounced, there IS still a difference. As a
result, I seem to have lost my taste for Twinings' US offerings and
when my supply runs out will probably only purchase the imported
versions online.

Has anyone else noticed this or am I just crazy??

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
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Mydnight <myseri@hotmail.com> wrote:

The suppliers likely give much lower quality
leaf to the American Twinings.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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On Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 10:15:04rC>AM UTC+5:30, Tea drinker wrote:

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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