Red Label orange pekoe from Assam is my favorite. Most Indian import and spice stores carry it or a similar brand such as Lipton (British Lipton, not the US garbage) This is the granulated style (loose, but the bags are also good as bags go) which I much prefer to leaf and it also happens to be about 1/4 to 1/10 the cost of leaf. I also love Twinings Assam (again, the British stuff, not the tea they export to the US) which is also the granule type but a bit more expensive and hard to find. Andrew Tyndall got me hooked on this stuff years ago. For me nothing else compares.
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- steve 10-13-2009 8:59 pm