Clever product marketing, product rather average

This was the first time that I was able to test and evaluate tea. One would think that there would be this only to evaluate the taste. But far from it. I have been so noticed some points while watching the total product, which have been included in my personal downgrade.

You have to understand that I am longtime tea drinkers, have informed me, and me imagining to have some basic knowledge about tea. So what has bothered me the first: the words on the ingredient list of the pack "black tea". That says much of anything out! Which (!) Black tea because, if you please? Ceylon, Assam, Darjeeling, Kenya, Java, China ... and so some exotic places of production are possible. And what harvest period? Or is it a mixture of them all? To write on the package, if it were black tea, is about as sensible as to say that the Pope is Catholic. What now being expected not just wrong.

Second offense: the words' contains flavor ". Even that says, in regard to the name "Earl Grey", virtually nothing from. Which (!!) Aroma, please? For a real Earl Grey it would be bergamot, and for a good then also no flavor, but bergamot oil. But I suspect that would increase the cost of production unnnötig. The term "flavor" per se could be specified. Of course? Nature identical?

The thing with the "pyramid" I think more or less for window dressing, as the addition of the "Rainforest Alliance". It is alleged in the pyramid have the loose tea more room. That's nonsense, because normal teabags just no (!) Contain loose tea, but the so-called "Fannings", the "dust". Loose tea is still brewed best without bag. Also, I have cut two bags, and examined the contents. Okay, there are probably whole leaves, but not of a higher quality. Very thin and "piselig", apparently left over from any sieving. In addition, marigold flowers have to be yellow, and not to look in the majority as ash flakes. (What ever make marigold flowers in a "Earl Grey" ??)

The mention of the "Rainforest Alliance" borders for me to deliberate deception of customers. Firstly we all know, as I said earlier, not at all, for any growing area of ​​tea comes - and whether there are rainforest there! Second only "over 50%" of the plantations are certified by this ominous and little transparent "Alliance". This reduces the actual possible percentage further. And what does that mean at all "certified"? That once an inspector was there ?? I'm sorry, but this word is replaced for me definitely not an organic quality seal!

That the product not only gets a meager Stern, is ultimately the taste which was halfway passable. The cup color was intense reddish, but rather mild in flavor - not to say, tend to taste. I bet on a favorable blend of Assam and Ceylon. Expensive was not guaranteed. Even a typical Earl Grey Note I could make less. I have tried different dosages and different brewing times, and the result was always more or less, well, uniform. Little character. Who, not familiar with tea, and in particular with Earl Grey, for may be the OK. Well, at least you can not do too much wrong with this tea ...

Overall, I can only say that I find very clever designed for the whole. For a conscious users, and avid tea drinkers, the resulting laminated defects but are still in evidence today.