Davidson'sTea Bulk, Organic Assam Banaspaty Estate Tea 1 Pound BagUSDA Organic

Quality tea! This tea is smooth and absolutely delicious. It feels good to know it's organic and that being loose-leaf I don't have to worry about ingesting microplastics from tea bags. I highly recommend it.

Davidson’s is a great company that offers a wide variety of quality teas. This time I got the black Earl Grey, and it’s truly excellent — rich in flavor, lovely aroma, and a beautiful color. It’s not the dust you find in tea bags — these are real tea leaves. I truly enjoy it, and I definitely recommend it to others!

Vanilla Rooibos tea is like a warm hug and this is a great deal for such a lovely experience. I recommend this if you're a fan of a robust VR cuppa.

Silver Needles is the most prized type of white tea one can buy. Davidson's Tea gives you this fine tea at a good price for the volume of leaves.This tea has a white fur on each little leaf. Supposedly, this is because it is picked from the top two leaf layers of early (immature) tea. For those who have not had Silver Needles before, it has a much more subtle tea flavor than does green tea. For some, this may not be as pleasant to drink, so before you put out the money for an entire pound, you may want to try it in a less expensive way first. For myself, I do prefer green and even black tea, but white tea has some health advantages I seek.As others have mentioned, you can definitely get at least three good brews out of this tea. Also, the tea does not leave you jittery from caffeine as similar amounts of green or black tea would. This is, in part, because it has less caffeine than the others, appears to have a stronger concentration of differing antioxidants, and it has more theobromine and theanine--both of which soothe and calm people. You are left amazingly alert but calm as you drink this. If you have something to do that requires a lot of concentration, drinking this tea greatly helps you focus. I cannot fully describe just how strong this effect is, but your mind functions as well as if you had just had a great night's sleep, coupled with a vigorous workout (depending on how much tea you used or how long the initial brew took -- the more the better). The effect seems to be most noticeable starting 30 minutes after drinking the first cup and lasts many hours.Without a doubt, the tea tastes best if brewed at something below 170 degrees (probably 160 is best). I have taken to using a kitchen thermometer if I'm in doubt as to its relative temperature. It takes longer to brew, but the taste stays more agreeable.On a different note, we were surprised to have this arrive in a large plastic-lined paper bag THAT WAS MERELY TWIST-TIED SHUT. Yes, this arrives without any sort of seal, even a zipping-type of seal. All you do to get access to the tea inside is undo the two little edge twist-ties and then unroll.I do not think anyone at the Amazon warehouse will have tampered with the tea, but honestly, there's no way to prove that. Davidson's sells other bulk one-pound teas that have a zipper seal and are also tightly-glued above that seal. For those, there is no way to tamper with them without it being noticed.I am not "weirded out" enough to not purchase this very fine tea this way again, as it really just arrives as if you'd gotten it bulk from a local store in which you'd bagged it yourself, but I do think other people will be bothered by this. Those people are now warned.NOTE: Silver Needles tea leaves are supposed to be short. Since they are picked at the earliest time of the spring, they are not nearly fully-grown. It is also the reason the tea is "brittle"--the tea is dried and was only picked one time in the year. If you are expecting big leaves that are "moist", you are looking for a different tea.UPDATE: With out latest pound, Lot#: AMZ-S3110980, the flavor is quite different, tasting more like White Peony with a hint of Jasmine. The prior bag, Lot #: AMZ-T3278926, had no such hint to it. Both teas look identical, though.UPDATE (March 2011): The bag (Lot #: AMZ-T2662880) now comes in a tamper-proof bag, like many of the other Davidson's teas. Thanks, Davidson's!UPDATE (November 2012): Davidson's has removed the Lot numbers, but added a "Best By" date. Our bag, with a date of 08/09/2014, tastes like tree leaves somehow got in it. The individual leaves (buds) look a bit sickly compared with prior bags, too. Because it has always been good, we are overlooking this one bag's issue and will drink it up. We go through a bag roughly every three months. Sadly, this bag came in as the Amazon price had gone up, so we paid more for lesser quality than ever before.UPDATE (January 2013): Our tea with an 11/2/2014 "Best By" date looks almost as good as Teavana's. I found two small clover-type leaves, but otherwise, this looks and tastes the best we've seen in over a year. Excellent!

I got 2 teas: Earl Grey with Lavender and Classic Chai. The Earl Grey is fantastic! It smells and tastes exactly how I expected. 10/10 would recommend. Unfortunately the chai was a major disappointment. It is bland and to me doesn't taste at all like chai. It reminds me of something else that I can't put a finger on but more herbal than anything. I will probably doctor it up with some other spices since a return would just be thrown away, but I do not recommend the Classic Chai to anyone unless they want to most mild, indistinct flavor possible in a tea. 1/10 for the chai.

This has become my favorite company to order herbs and teas that I do not grow. It began with organic black tea! And Now I find many more selections that I use. the taste and quality are the best I have found. Their price is reasonable for all organics. So much more tea than you can purchase in tea bags!

Great quality, great color, great taste! If you’re a tea drinker, this is for you!

Really ok. Not awesome. Tastes good with milk. I get sick of it and then I have to drink my cheap tea bags, again. I like to switch up my teas. I like having loose tea as it all goes in the compost and no tea bags. When you go through to use your compost there are all those little oval labels from avocados and bananas (you didn't know you could eat that many) and tea bags that won't decompose.