Zesta Premium Ceylon Black Tea BOPF - 100% Organic Loose Leaf Tea - 195g/6.9oz Fresh from Sri Lanka

This is not a "loose leaf" tea. It is ground up tea, similar to ground coffee. It didn't work in a tea ball. I tried it by placing in the cup and then pouring hot water over the ground tea. However, that resulted in floating bits in my tea. I am not a fan of floating bits. A nice package, but didn't work for me. I didn't even get to try one cup and the remaining product went into the bin.

I am a big tea drinker, particularly black teas. I ordered the Zesta Ceylon Black Tea BOPF. To put it in a nutshell, I should have read the description more carefully before ordering. The BOPF indicates "broken orange pekoe fannings." Generally speaking, fannings are what is left after the tea leaves have been processed. The pieces in this package are very small, not dust, but small. When I first opened the package, there was little black tea fragrance.The package directions for brewing the tea were incomplete. (For a beginner tea maker this might be important.) It tells you to brew 1 teaspoon in boiling water with varying minutes for desired strength. It does not tell you how much water to use. So I used 1 teaspoon (slightly heaping) with 8 ounces of boiling water for 4 minutes for a strong brew. At first, I put the tea into my regularly used infuser. This was not successful as a significant portion of the tea particles went right through the holes of the infuser before I even brewed the tea. Therefore, I switched to putting the tea into a paper-type tea bag. The resulting tea had little flavor and tasted somewhat "dull."Would I order again? No.

We use this to make milk tea and drink it daily because we find it’s one with a livelier flavor without added flavorings. Plain black tea. Loose leaf and small cut so you don’t use much to get a good “cuppa” tea.