Do you know how to CORRECTLY add milk to your tea?

[thesummerqueen]

My father would drink the most awful Earl Gray tea at times. I hated it. Later I discovered bagged teas that I liked when I was sick or needed to sleep - there was a chamomile-mango that was very nice that Celestial Dreams (I think) put out.

Then Ungodlyfossil sent me loose-leaf stuff from Germany - strong black tea that's good with milk. It was very nice. I don't do bagged stuff now unless I'm making iced tea and it's convenient.

There's a spa down the highway which has hundreds of canisters of loose-leaf tea of all kinds. Blacks. Greens. Oolongs. Botanicals. Pu-erhs. They all have different scents. Some are sweet, some are bitter. Some are naturally tart - like the ox-blood colored Berry Hibiscus I love which tastes like just-ripe lemons and raspberries. There's a black tea David and I like called "Chococcino" which smells like chocolate and coffee. I drink a ginger pu-erh quite often which is only mildly bitter and very gingery - perfect for upset stomachs.

It's sort of like wine - I always hated wine until I went to an actual vineyard and had something other than the cheap red wine my dad would buy. Wine from the barrel is an experience, and going through good, expensive wine on a tasting on a crisp fall day in Virginia will turn anyone into a wine-lover. Tea is sort of the same way - go to a place that specializes in it (not Teavana) and have someone who loves it go with you. I bet you'd find something.