Upton Tea Imports

Sharp and strong, which is good for the morning but bad for me at other times. There is a cocoa note that appears midway through the quaff and it is of the bitter cocoa variety. If I drank my tea with sugar or honey, this is a tea I would use it with.

The tea leaves are quite pretty with their hand-made spirals, but one cannot buy a tea just for beauty. Well, ok, I sometimes do. But in this case, I probably won’t.

I got a sample from the new batch and it is much better than the previous I tried some time ago. It is sweet, light and has a distinct mushroom scent and flavor that I’m looking for in silver needle. As it stands now this tea is going to be my everyday choice for silver needle.

Tastes like generic Silver Needle if such thing exists. Not bad but nothing special either, kinda dull. Holds up to 3 infusions.

I keep coming back to this herbal tea. It’s a regular, and I drink it in quantity. Very reasonably priced.

This is one of my favorite herbal teas. It’s a little like lemongrass without lemon; grassy but unlike a grassy green teas. Fresh, clean, light, and crisp. I prefer this to red rooibos very strongly; it lacks a certain objectionable quality in the aroma of the red tea.

Lightly earthy with a trce of smoke, an excellent tea

Superior says it all!

Absolutely the best first flush I have ever had, perhaps the best Darjeeling I’ve ever had. Can’t say enough good about it

Excellent, excellent

High quality Ceylon base, but the Earl appears to not be at home

I just got some more in a tea swap. Oooh it is sooooooooooo good.

A sweet, strong, floral EG, excellent

Very clear sharp taste of Bergamot, liked it a lot, liked it more with Upton’s Devonshire E G

Hated it – it tasted like bad spinach. Just as well – very expensive

Excellent tea from an excellent estate, spicey, floral, tastes of harvest fruits

This has a good clean scent, the brew is much sweeter and cleaner than the usual Assam, with touches of apricot, and coacoa overlaying the malt.

Nice, light with sweetness under the smoke. 212 × 3.5 min

Pretty good! You don’t want to use as much tea as they say, but half that amount and 3 min infusion turns out a great cup…

An absolutely delightful caramel-flavored black tea. This tea has just the right amount of sweetness (it doesn’t taste sugary), and has a distinct caramel flavor, which doesn’t obscure the flavor of the tea itself. I have purchased this tea several times, and continue to keep it on my shopping list.

A perfect fall tea- warm, spicy, with a hint of citrus. Upton’s description speaks of drinking in front of a fire, and I can’t imagine any better way to enjoy this tea.

Fragrance of cloves and a note of apples. It tastes primarily of cloves but there is a sweet mixture of tastes below that strong note of cloves. It is, overall, an average chai. I like it but there are chais I love. This one may improve by being prepared in the traditional way: simmering in milk or by being steeped longer.

A slightly cloudy green-tan liquid with the hypnotic smell of rose petals. Despite its sweetness it has a slight bitterness that is unpleasant. I think the bitterness is actually coming from the rose petals rather than the tea. The tea itself is submerged under the rose petal taste. Not one of my favorites.

Pretty pale green color. Slight smell of turpentine but it tastes ok.

Developed more turpentine as it cooled.

Rose Congou is an amazing tea with a comforting hint of rose. Not overwhelming at all and one of my favourite teas to curl up with after a hard day.