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In my understanding the world’s best teas are rarely offered for sale online. My guess is you are not looking for US sellers. Yunnan Sourcing and Berylleb King Tea on EBay are two excellent sources of good teas. Other people may be able to recommend sellers in India if that is what you are looking for.

i’d say whatever country makes Lipton Sweet Tea in an aluminum can is the best !!!!!!

This all depends who you ask, some will say Japan while others will say China, Taiwan, or India. My favorite is puerh which is only made in China in Yunnan Province.

Actually I think if you take the very best tea produced by China, Taiwan, India, and Japan none will be better than the other. They will be different but none will be superior. However, the very best teas produced by these countries are probably not sold online.

I don’t know of any stores selling Kenyan tea online but I’m sure some must be selling it. I think Kenyan tea is what is mostly used for the tea bag industry now like Lipton but I’m not sure. They also must have some higher quality tea than this. In my understanding the British switched over largely to Kenyan tea when they lost India as a colony.

Kenyan and African tea in general is largely used as a filler for blends. Anywhere where assam is generally used.

Quality Kenyan tea is on the rise, though. The relative popularity of purple tea is helping it along, since it’s largely associated with Kenya and Yunnan. On top of this, companies like JusTea are helping to bring tea production/techniques TO Kenya, whereas in the past Kenya was handicapped in that they only grew and exported raw tea to be CTC’d elsewhere for use as filler. Kenya’s entered the orthodox scene with some pretty nice, large-leafed teas.

For companies that carry quality Kenyan tea: http://justea.com/ is my favourite, although I’m a bit biased because they’re also local. But googling ‘kenya purple tea’ should bring up a few good sites.

Checked out that site. While it looks interesting their shipping to the USA is a little high, especially if you want tracking.

Not surprised. We share the largest international border in the world, but for some reason the cost to ship across that line is terrible, both ways.

I am not sure they are famous about making best tea. In what way is Kenya best? Price? Handcraft? Growing environment?
All I know is Japan, Taiwan and China have very good crafted teas and long tradition of making tea.

Don’t take this thread seriously.

Kenya does not have a reputation for the world’s best tea that is for sure. They are a relative startup as far as tea goes. In my understanding their tea is improving and they sell quite a lot of it. But I mostly think they sell for the tea bag market, not the loose tea market.

Another thing about the world’s best tea. If you actually find it be prepared to pay in dollars per gram, not grams per dollar. That’s if you can find it. In my understanding it doesn’t really come to the online tea market at all but is kept for the lucky few.