More and more tea blenders are jumping on the Yorkshire Tea bandwagon and selling blends of black tea under regional names. D. J. Miles & Co are a Porlock based tea company, founded in 1888, who also import and roast coffee.
We've not been impressed with this tea - it's either strong or its vaque - there's no balance to be found in which the tea is delivered in a crisp and fresh manner. There's a chemical, soapy quality. It doesn't sit well with milk - it gives it a vomit flavour, and on it's own it's a little crude and tannic. Now, it may well be that I don't like the Assam tea or the African tea they use in the blend, and that those who like Assam or African tea will like this, Most African tea is grown in Kenya, processed by the crush, tear, curl (ctc) method, then sold in bulk to be blended in tea bags. Most ctc teas reveal little of their origin as they tend to all taste the same. They just make basic brown tea of no character.
Score: 3
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