Scottish Breakfast, Black Tea, Loose Leaf, 4.41 Ounce Tin Caddy, Strong, Malty and Full, Caffeinated, Premium Whole Leaf Tea

This tea is so good Hot or iced!

I've compared Taylor's rose and Harney and sons Rose, both are excellent. Taylor's, which I seem to prefer slightly more over Harney has a great black tea taste and aroma along with a rose scent and taste that's like a true red rose. Nothing funky or flavored, just lovely aromatic rose and China black tea. This is a classic, high quality tea. I highly recommend it if you enjoy rose tea. I also recommend never using white refined sugar, instead use the La Perruche brown cane sugar, as it compliments fine teas so brilliantly.

As the title sugests, I've tried a few scottish teas. If you don't read the rest of this, know that this tea is fantastic. Anyways, The Harney & Sons was the first scottish tea that I tried, it was tasty! But... I used the whole container, and needed more, so I went with Brodies next, because of great reviews, and because i wanted to try different takes on the blends. After getting it, there was a stark difference between the taste. In musical terms, H&Ss would be heavy low-mids all day, nothing crazy poking out. Brodies would be the opposite, to the point I'm surprised they call it a scottish tea. All high-mids and treble, flowery. H&Ss information was at least on point, Brodies fell short, not even offering caffeine content. Brodies website is even more unhelpful than the bag. Both of these are strange lose "leaf" teas, which are more like leaf pellets. I wasn't happy with Brodies, so I tried another well rated brand, Taylor's. This tea is the business, tastes good by itself, with milk, whatever. Plenty of punch and sizzle. It's delicious, to be frank. If you're in the market for a new tea, and haven't tried this, I highly suggest it over the other two, with H&Ss being 2nd. It actually has fuller leaves, not pellets. I will be buying more!

Very nice. Don't let it steep for more than 3 minutes, or it may become bitter.

The tea is delicious has just the flavor I was looking for in a morning tea. Strong, but smooth and floral. The tin came dented (it was packaged in a paper envelope), but that was a shipping issue, not a product issue. I just had to use a different container for storage. If you like English or Irish Breakfast teas, this is similar, but more flavorful.

The only problem I had with this order was that the seller packaged the tin in a bubble mailer. This seems to be an increasing practice to cut corners. As if they are ignorant of what packages go through en route to the buyer. Pretty much a guarantee that your tin will be very dented. Otherwise, the tea is lovely! Skip the tinned version, if you can. It costs more because of the tin packaging that you'll likely have to toss out on arrival.

1st it's a very nice tin, came boxed with other items. It's got a beautiful color and very good taste. We're pleased with the cut also, not to fine to create a lot of sentiment. Really enjoyable, buy this one with confidence.

As I'd written about the Irish breakfast tea I also purchased, I was experimenting by following an article comparing English breakfast tea to Irish and Scottish breakfast, and this was pointed out to be the strongest brew. I'm happy to report that this takes nothing from the enjoyable flavor! I truthfully cannot say that I hold a preference for the great Irish tea over the Scottish. I will be sipping each at different times and enjoying the caffeinated stimulation along with the way the flavors dance with my tongue!