{"id":1301,"date":"2012-11-29T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2012-12-18T00:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:45:04","slug":"earl-grey-for-cheap-dilmah-taja-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2012\/11\/earl-grey-for-cheap-dilmah-taja-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Grey for Cheap: Dilmah & Taja Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There are many things I love about having Grocery Outle<\/a>t so near my house, and one of them is their ever changing brands of tea.\u00a0 I used to pretty much only buy Twinnings<\/a> tea (waiting for it to go on sale, as it’s usually $4 for 20 bags), but so many of the teas I’ve found at Grocery Outlet are comparable in flavor, that I am no longer tied to that venerable branch.<\/p>\n

I’m usually a black-tea girl, but I do make an exception for Earl Grey<\/a>, a black tea flavored with bergamot orange<\/a> oil.\u00a0 I’ve recently had those produced by Taja Tea<\/a> and Dilmah<\/a>, and they were both excellent.<\/p>\n

Taja Tea specializes on “saffron” teas and offers five flavors<\/a>.\u00a0 The Earl Grey is made with black tea from Argentina, and artificial bergamot flavors (I checked).\u00a0 Still, it is delicious.\u00a0 Other Taja Tea flavors also get good reviews<\/a>, and I may try the red rubio and the assam if I catch them at GO.<\/p>\n

Dilmah is a Sri Lanka based, family company, established soon after Sri Lanka gained its independence.\u00a0 They specialize on Ceylonese tea, as you’d expect, and their Earl Grey is very satisfying.\u00a0 It’s not as flavorful as Taja’s, but it has nothing to envy Twinnings.\u00a0 It uses Ceylon black tea and artificial bergamot flavoring.<\/p>\n

They are both cheaper than Twinnings as well. I’ll check the actual prices next time I go to GO, but they’re about $1.50 to $2 per box of 20.<\/p>\n

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