Harrogate Is A lovely Part Of The Country...but (Yorkshire Tea)

Member Name: Emmald

Product:	Yorkshire Tea
Date:	24/02/09 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: A premium tea

Disadvantages: Just a tad too strong for me

We love nothing better than a good cuppa and there are teabags that we buy regularly, teabags that we avoid like the plague and some that we only buy if they are on special offer.
If we are having a lazy start to the day I often make a pot of tea, endless teabag dipping becomes expensive and wasteful too.
I find if I warm my pot with boiling water and then add my teabags I get a good cuppa and we can have second helpings.

I have often looked at the boxes of Yorkshire tea bags and that is as far as it has gone! The Yorkshire Gold teabags can be as much as £2.45 for a packet of 80.
Although I fully appreciate that Bettys and Taylor of Harrogate, Yorkshire. produce top quality products I struggle with the idea of paying that much for an everyday cup of tea.

As many of us do I often look around the sites offering free samples, I always think that the idea of a little something for nothing is highly attractive and I have sent for and received some brilliant freebies.
So when Yorkshire teabags appeared on one of these sites I filled in my details and hoped that my free sample would arrive.
Sure enough a couple of weeks later I received four Yorkshire Tea bags through my letterbox.

At first I thought the little plastic sachets contained leaf tea and was preparing to dig out my vintage tea strainer, but when I opened the neat little square packets which were delightfully decorated with the Yorkshire tea logo, I found neat little teabags placed inside.

The following morning I decided to experiment and make a pot of Yorkshire tea, I warmed the pot and got my cups ready.
One teabag makes two cups, so the instructions on the packet tell me.
So one teabag duly popped into the warm teapot and then the pot was filled with boiling water.
After letting the tea brew and setting my cups ready I started to pour, the tea had a very strong smell attached to it although it didn't look too strong, at best it was chestnut coloured.
In fact I had a job to adjust my sense of smell to accommodate the niff attached to the Yorkshire tea.
Yorkshire Gold tea is a blend of in the region of twenty different types of tea and is quite rightly described as a Premium tea.

Although the tea looked good sat in the cup and it had an excellent colour I could still detect this `different` aroma, though it wasn't at all unpleasant.
After filling the cups I added milk to suit in readiness for the gargling session!
I wouldn't have wanted the tea any stronger or in fact any weaker but there was just something that didn't quite `do it` for me. The Other half knew that his tea was different but that was about as far as it went.
I found that the tea had a twang to it, maybe ever so slightly bitter?

I think that my main problem is that I have become institutionalised! I have been drinking the same few teas month in and month out and my palate has become accustomed to them!
So rather than welcoming the tea as I should have done I found it strange and consequently a little unpalatable.

I am sure that Yorkshire tea is a favourite of many, it certainly is a first class tea made by a highly respected company.
Maybe just not the right tea for me.

Summary: A premium tea that you need to get used to.