Let’s hear it from our new crowd, do you have a reliable corner shop supplier or perhaps you order online? Maybe Sainsbury’s has all you need, I’d still love to know!
I treat myself to a few quarter-pound bags from Chicago’s Rare Tea Cellar twice a year. I get a lot of loose-leaf teas as gifts, as well. My two “daily drinkers” are the Wagh Bakri Masala Chai which I get in a 100-bag box up on Devon Street (the Indian / Georgian neighborhood in Chicago); and a fujian tea that I identify by it’s bright red box, which I get in either Chinatown or the Korean grocer nearer my house.
I’m also partial to Czar Nicholas ][, but I don’t make a point of always having some on hand.
I can tell you where I was buying it: T2.
Then the bastards shut all their shops in the UK, leaving me with nothing but the 15-odd boxes of tea I still hadn’t finished.I’ve personally found gillards of bath to have the best tea I’ve found. It’s well worth the cost. They supply a lot of the high end tea shops in bath, though often even they don’t do the tea the justice it deserves. You need to prepare it properly. It’s good enough that the weird little things can matter. E.g. warming the pot, or the difference between brewing and stewing it.
Their Three Gardons Ceylon is my favourite. Though their Earl Grey is also VERY good.
Lidl. Honestly, you lot with your fancy teas are getting as bad as the artisan coffee wankers 😜
I’m in Ohio, US (not the UK) but these are the folks I order from https://www.ohioteaco.com/
I’ve built up a list of tea shops I’ve visited (or had contact with) & that have good tea.
Clipper Tea (in particular their British Breakfast blend) from … Tesco, or Waitrose if it’s not in stock
I’m going to follow this thread in the hopes of finding some good shops in EU.
Adagio Tea’s Earl Grey Cream is my favorite.
I bulk buy Clipper Tea from online (usually Amazon has cheapest).
I buy from Murchie’s, but I’m in the US. I’d imagine quality tea options are easier to come by across the Atlantic.
I’m right there with you, so far it’s been a gold mine!
Most of ours comes direct from China by my wife’s family but if we buy in Australia we get it from the Asian grocery markets.
I also have a favourite health food store that stocks all sorts of medicinal tea that I peruse. Things like linden flower, damiana and yerba maté.
A bit similar here, my partner works a lot witg Chinese people who often bring some fancy tea.
Mostly I buy from Yuuki-Cha.com for organic Camellia sinensis Tea in a Japanese style, and Japanese teaware. And for other herbs, I search the world over for good quality, and reasonable prices.
I like rishi online and get numi from Amazon
