Brew up with Barry's Tea! (Barry's Tea Gold Blend)

Member Name: margerydawes

Product:	Barry's Tea Gold Blend
Date:	02/10/09 (27 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lovely taste, nice reminder of Ireland!

Disadvantages: Very, very difficult to find in the UK.

Barry's Tea - Gold Blend
For me, Barry's Tea is THE taste of Ireland, acquired through many trips there on holiday as a child. And the Gold Blend is the best of the bunch coming in its trademark red box. Barry's Tea was started in Cork in 1901 and is the best-selling tea in Ireland.
Unfortunately it is fiendishly difficult to find in the UK, and I have never seen it stocked in a standard supermarket, instead I have to beg friends who are going to Ireland to bring me some back (along with some Galton's cheese, but that's another story!).

Despite it being very central to Irish culture, Barry's Tea is blended from the finest Indian tea leaves (believe it or not, for some time I thought there were tea plantations in Cork). The Gold blend teas is grown on the high mountain slopes of Kenya and the Assam Valley of India and blended for the red box variety.
The Gold Blend makes a very bright gold cup of tea and I find it slightly bitter, in a good way, and very full bodied.

Worth a try if you're heading to Ireland!

Summary: Put the kettle on!