Organic Positively Tea Company, Assam TGFOP Black Tea, Loose Leaf, 16 OunceUSDA Organic

I have been enjoying tea from the Organic Positively Tea Company for probably about two years now. I am sticking with this company for three reasons. First, I find their teas particularly strong and clear - never stale, never dull, never over dried. Second, the delivery has been 100% reliable. Third, the price is competitive: i never feel it’s overpriced or overhyped. In short, Organic Positively Tea Company gives me very good value for my shrinking dollar.

This has become my morning tea! I get a full pot out of a heaping soup spoon full, and don't have to worry about the microplastic problems associated with using tea bags. The flavor is full and pleasant, and it has a nice amount of caffeine to help get me going. It also stands up to adding ice in my travel mug. Overall good tea.

I like my black tea really strong and it takes a lot of this tea to make a strong pitcher of tea. However, the flavor is pleasing if you prefer a milder tea. In that case I would certainly recommend it. Good value as it is a large quantity of tea.

Recently I have been trying out various organic loose-leaf teas, especially ones with tropical flavors. I was kind of excited when I read about the Positively Tea brand because the flavor combinations sounded good and because they didn't list "natural flavors" that I have found tend to be associated with unpleasant chemical-y tastes (even in supposedly organic brands).I decided to try this flavor first, because it had some positive reviews. I figured it would give me a sense of the quality of the tea, so that I could decide if I wanted to try other items.This tea does not have anything objectionable about it. It does not taste like chemicals to me, and the flavor tastes like the passion fruit that it says it's supposed to be, and it does not taste unpleasant. You would think that would be a low bar, especially when buying organic, but there are a lot of bad products out there. Maybe it's because certified organic products can have non-organic ingredients in them, I don't know.What is surprising is that the tea does not taste much like, um, tea. Even when I tried brewing it strong and let it sit for a long time, the black tea flavor is very mild. So much so that I feel like the thing to do is to mix it half and half with some black tea (e.g. from Frontier) to beef it up.Probably organic tea in this price range should not be expected to be particularly good quality. Maybe if this company were to sell higher-quality tea with these kinds of flavors for somewhere under $30 a pound, rather than somewhere under $20 a pound, it would be of the quality that I would hope for. I find it hard to justify $15 for three ounces, but somewhat more money for better quality would be worth paying for.Maybe Positively Tea should consider a premium line??As comparison: Frontier (which I think of as baseline organic tea) makes a few flavored tea that I can get for $30-40 a pound online (though not so much on Amazon), and they are pretty good. But there is not enough flavor variety. I bought a couple of bags of Davidson's and found it undrinkable, so at least Positively Tea seems better than that!This seems to me to be similar to Numi (which admittedly I've only had in tea bags rather than loose leaf). Interesting flavors, but using lesser-quality tea. Not bad tea, just not very good tea. The tea quality of Mighty Leaf organic seems a smidge higher, though admittedly I've only had that in those little pouches and of course most of their interesting flavors are non-organic (with the non-organic being, in my recent experience, undrinkable too).Apparently organic is especially important in tea because the pesticides are sprayed on the leaves and not washed off before the leaves are dried. And the selection of organic flavored loose-leaf teas is sparse enough that I might buy another flavor from this line and see what it's like. i really think there's a niche in the marketplace for a higher-quality tea at a slightly higher price to be considered though.

Good tea. It’s smooth yet robust, perfect for a morning boost or an afternoon pick-me-up.

Great flavor, super smooth! Love to drink this tea! Will buy again!

We have bought this tea for years, consistently good quality, perfect tasting tea at an amazing price.

As long as you are used to working with loose tea, this product is a pleasant addition to your collection. The flavors are well defined. For this reason, I like to use it for iced tea. I prepare a concentrate with boiling water: about 1/4 cup tea to one quart water, then dilute it with two more quarts of water. The teas retains their distinctive flavors even when served with lots of ice.