Where can I get British tea in the United States?
Homesick Brits can buy a few British household brands by mail order. The Mark T. Wendell company sells Ty-Phoo and PG Tips. Mark T. Wendell P.O. Box 1312 West Concord, MA 01742 5.8. Professional tasters’ lexicon This is from James Norwood Pratt, Tea Lover’s Treasury. Dry Leaf: • Bloom: sheen or luster on black leaf • Bold: large leaf or sometimes pieces of leaf too big for a grade, outsized • Chesty: resinous odor/taste imparted by uncured wood in tea chest • Common: poor quality • Dull: leaf without sheen, i.e., “bloom” • Flaky: poorly made leaf that’s flat and easily broken; nonpejoratively, small grades • Shotty: well-made Gunpowder; sometimes also applied to Souchong • Tippy: generous amounts of white or golden tip, i.e., budding leaf • Well-twisted: fully withered, tightly rolled leaf • Wiry: stylish, thin whole leaves; quite often OP grade Infusion: • Agony of the leaves: unfolding of the leaves in boiling water Tea Liquor: • Bakey: unpleasant taste caused by firing leaf at too h
