Taylors Harrogate Yorkshire Gold Teabags Reviews Summary

Flavor

Pros:

• "The tea leaves are carefully handpicked and expertly blended to ensure that every cup is of the highest possible quality."
• "This tea is so delicious and test different."
• "It's full flavored & Delicious."
• "Yorkshire Gold steeps to a beautiful dark like coffee color with no bitterness, although strong it is a smooth taste to the tongue."
• "It has a wonderful flavor, warm or cold."
• "It has a deep, rich, bold flavor."
• "The flavor is rich, the packaging was good and intact, a box wrapped in plastic and tea was fresh!"

Cons:

• "It is dark and on the slight bitter end of the tea spectrum."
• "I was expecting the GOLD Version to be Noticeably Better than the RED version, but everyone is different, and IMHO, this is just too Strong, and Overbearing."
• "They're fine, but they're a lot weaker than the brands I'm used to."
• "This don't taste like Taylors gold."
• "This tea is a bit overrated, but not bad."
• "Harsh and fishy."
• "I found the taste very bitter."

Quality and Value

Pros:

• "For the price you really can't beat it for a quality everyday tea."
• "Been buying these Yokrshire Gold black tea bags on and off since 2014! Strongly prefer these over anything else the office kitchen stocks."
• "TOH Yorkshire Gold is a tremendous value."
• "And the fact that it gives you 160 packets for $9 that's a sweet price."
• "I drink 4 or more cups of tea daily. I have repurchased this because of great flavor, excellent value, and I usually use each bag 3 times (rich 2nd brew for sure)."
• "Love the fact that it's a full 500 Grams for less than many good loose leaf teas at 454 grams."
• "Great tea for the price & will probably buy again."

Cons:

• "However, this time it was shipped without a box and was torn open with tea bags hanging out."
• "Several of the bags broke while steeping."
• "The only down side is the packaging is not reusable."
• "By English standards a little expensive but worth it."
• "These are more expensive, but I think I will probably buy them again and switch back and forth between the 2 brands."
• "Very nice tea, but the bags are pot size, too much for a single mug."
• "For the price, it's okay."

Packaging

Pros:

• "The flavor is rich, the packaging was good and intact, a box wrapped in plastic and tea was fresh!"
• "He was thrilled to find these at Amazon and at a good price."
• "Once we break the seal on the box, we put the bags into glass jars to keep them fresh."
• "This last order the tea came in a box and luckily I'd saved my precious can that keeps the product from getting stale."
• "Box Arrived on time & Not crushed."
• "The actual box of tea had some clear wrap around it, and the box was a thin cardboard exactly as shown in the product pictures."
• "This box came cellophane wrapped and is very fresh."

Cons:

• "I was shocked to learn that Yorkshire tea contains plastics in their tea bags which, of course, will not compost."
• "However, I have found that this last box (purchased within a month) is rather weak and tasteless compared to years and years of highly flavorful, fresh tea."
• "Bags are not in envelopes, box probably wont be the best place to store them."
• "The bags are not sealed. They come loose inside a cardboard box."
• "Had to toss box it came with due to its being squashed in transit."
• "Tea is packed in a paper box, with loose bags - pretty sloppy to be honest."
• "I made the mistake of ordering this box of tea without a container to keep the tea in."

Environmental and Health Consciousness

Pros:

• "My absolute favorite aspect of this tea is that the tea bags are not individually plastic wrapped, nor do they have metal staples."
• "✅ Rainforest Alliance seal stands for more sustainable farming methods that help improve farmer livelihoods & mitigate climate change."
• "Product Certifications (2)✅ CarbonNeutral product by Climate Impact Partners measures all the emissions created in the product’s manufacture, makes internal reductions and offsets the remainder."
• "Also love that the bags are just paper and no string - easily biodegradable."