Twinings: Everyday

Despite being a lover of many fruit and herbal infusions and assorted black and green teas I always seem to return to the traditional blend of 'Everyday Tea'. If I'm unsure how I'm feeling, or if I feel a little low, I don't tend to to turn to a fruit burst infusion tea; but the completely normal blend of black tea. The type that if you went into a tea shop and asked for a 'pot' this is what you would get.

Today I decided to try 'Twinings Everyday tea', it was a cool autumnal afternoon, and this was a perfect and relaxing accompaniment to a lazy day.

Twinings do a range of 'traditional' teas, including 'Everyday Tea', 'English Breakfast' and 'Traditional Afternoon'.
This particular blend is of course completely unique to 'Twinings'. It is a mixture of tea leaves from Yunnan in China, which where tea originated from some 2000 years ago,  along with Assam which is an African and Indonesian based tea.

This tea is branded 'rich and full bodied' - and it certainly is that; but somehow remarkably smooth.
There are very indulgent and rich traditional tea flavours, which are incredibly calming and relaxing. I don't think it would be possible not to enjoy this tea, it is beautifully natural, soothing and satisfying. Any tea lover would adore this blend and I would recommend it to anybody, if you like your tea strong the flavours are there and not compromised by the smooth and delicate finish. However, if you like your tea light and milky then this could easily be achieved by a short steep much like any other traditional black tea.

I like my everyday tea with plenty of flavour, so I steeped mine for around 5 minutes, I also added a splash of milk although that is completely up to you.

Twinings Everyday Tea can be bought in single packets from their website here for £0.25. Or packs of 40 can be bought for £1.50-£1.99 at most supermarkets - there are even packs of 240 available!

© Photography taken by and copyright to Elizabeth Mawson and 'Tea is Always a Good Idea'.