What has happened to our tea?

I would buy an Assam, Kitty. We have Ceylon for breakfast and Yunnan for afternoon, both large leaf. Our tea shop lady recommended a different Ceylon to us the other week as "the champagne of teas". It was vile, with no flavour. When we went back she looked up the details and found it was for drinking without milk. She offered to take it back, but we agreed (with much laughter) to keep it for French visitors.
We actually find it easier to buy good tea here in France as every small town seems to have a specialist shop. Not cheap though.
Only other thought is to wonder if your kettle is cutting out a bit early? If ours gets furred up, it does that and the tea doesn't taste as good.

Try some of the better tea shops. There's plenty of good tea around but you do have to pay a bit more for it. A certain well-known "grocer" in Picadilly does quite a variety in Assams alone

Such as single estate....

#jerkythinkingsyndrome

As well as blends

#veryjerky... etc

I don't think we have very refined tastes - our tea of choice is PG Tips! .

Ditto

Kitty I went off PG Tips and swapped to Twinings English Breakfast, sadly tea bags, so what do I know?

Assam leaves in a pewter pot for afternoon tea. Waitrose bags in stainless steel to get us up in the morning.

Kittylester I went off PG Tips because bit did seem to lose its flavour. I use Yorkshire tea instead now, which does seem to have a bit more kick.

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We are drinking Lancashire tea - it's strong and flavourful, mind you, it's tea bags for ease

For years and years we drank Sainsburys "Red Label" . However, the price was getting quite ridiculous .
We now drink Aldi tea and a very fine brew it is ! We like ours really strong and this tea fits the bill !
Might even go so far as to say " Builders tea "
not much so far , still the day is young.

"Builder's tea" can be bought in Wickes. DH had some in his Christmas stocking. You do have to supply your own sugar.

Flick ,
laugh , nice to start the day with a titter !

I drink one mug of tea in the afternoon... Twining's Assam - loose of course...
sans milk.

Surely the 'champagne of teas' is Darjeeling? Very pale and very subtle...

I drink tea without milk: Ceylon for breakfast; Earl Grey in the afternoon. My favourite brand is Taylor's of Harrogate which I can't always find easily so my fallback is Waitrose's own brand. Always leaf tea, brewed in pottery pot. I don't put lemon in it, preferring to get the 'bouquet' of the tea on its own.
When I go to visit my sister and BiL, I cannot bring myself to drink their brew of choice - Lapsang Souchong which I find unbearably smokey.

I must admit to drinking Rooibos tea as well, because I am very sensitive to caffeine, even in tea.

I use Twinings Green Tea (50% black and 50% green). I like the flavour of it and I read somewhere that green tea is good for arthritis. Not sure if it's true, but what the heck!

I use Rington's tea, it was blended to suit the water in this area and it is a nice cuppa

I only ever drink herbal teas as I cannot stand the taste of tea.
My sons use Yorkshire tea. The Ringtons man comes round this village, and he keeps trying to persuade me to buy it, even though I tell him that I only use organic herbal teas. I ended up once buying a pack of their organic tea, and gave it to my son after having it in the house for a year without anyone drinking any. I was worried if I kept it any longer it would go completely out of date.

I was going to suggest Yorkshire tea too, as a friend said exactly the same thing only a couple of days ago. I think our taste buds change as we age. I drink redbush/rooibos now.

Yorkshire tea. I got really fed up with DH buying Sainsbury's Red Lable and other better values teas other brands he tried seemed bland.

I am not extravagant with food and I flatly refuse to compromise on having a decent brew.

Thought I didn't like tea until I discovered Earl Grey [ I use tea bags] have got several teapots in the house but don't seem to use them now. Was brought up on strong orange coloured tea [no idea what it was] and always rather disliked it.Since then have tried many varieties, but only like Earl Grey [with either milk or lemon, depends how I feel.]
So, now I am like Captain Picard...... Earl Grey tea;hot ! [though sadly don't have a machine like he has to instantly produce a cup, unless DH is at home,] .

I use my vintage Piquotware pot for tea, used to use china teapot but a lady at a specialist tea stall at a Food fare says she find that Piquotware pot is the best - not sure why. It was the coffee/hotwater pot she was using. It does somehow enhance the flavour.

Make it so, roses!