Customer Reviews

Uncle Lee's Tea Organic Green Tea, 100-Count Box (Pack of 4)

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My mom is an avid green tea drinker. I have bought her just about every brand of green tea available including Lipton, Twinings, Celestial Seasonings, Bigelow and probably a dozen others, including some of the fanciest and most expensive. Her favorite of all green teas is Uncle Lee's Organic Green Tea. She will drink others if she has to, but she doesn't enjoy any other tea half as much as this one. I have made it a habit to buy the 4-pack of 100s from Amazon to keep her in stock as she drinks 4-6 cups of this stuff every day. For taste, nothing compares to Uncle Lee's Organic Green Tea. And the price here at Amazon is really good too! Give it a try. I think you will be glad you did.

I have tried hundreds of green teas the past couple of years and there is NOTHING better out there than Uncle Lee's Organic Green Tea. I've never reviewed a product before, but could not pass on sharing how wonderful this tea is. Smooth but good depth of flavor. Not pungent. Great with agave nectar, honey, milk, or lemon, however you like, I dare say you will not be disappointed.

Uncle Lee's green tea is really good. I drink it instead of coffee now. It's packed with antioxidants and the flavor is wonderful. I use a little Truvia to sweeten it up a bit. It's good tea.

Uncle Lee's Green Tea is the best tasting green tea I have ever had and I have tried lots. Better yet, it's organic.

Well, I am going to be a bit contrary to the higher ratings given this tea. By no means am I a tea expert, but I drink more cups of green tea in a day than the law allows. I have tried a large variety of teas: green, black, oolong, white..... the list goes on. The vast majority of my tea consumption is green tea, definitely my preference over black teas, though I do like oolong. I tried my first cup of Mr. Lee's Organic Green Tea today, it sits to the left of my keyboard at the moment as I type this review. When I removed the teabags from the box to put in my air tight canister, out of habit I sniffed the collection of tea bags, curious of the aroma. It was a familiar smell, basically the same "fragrance" as I have noticed in many previous boxes of green tea brands such as Lipton, Salada, Carrington, Prince of Peace, etc. I popped my cup of tap water into the microwave and while waiting for the water to heat up, I admired the tidy plastic wrapper which had enveloped the tea bag. I dropped the tea bag into the hot water, allowed the tea to brew, a familiar aroma arose from the cup of tea, again the same aroma as the previous mentioned teas. The first sip, BITTER, what a disappointment. And the bitterness lingers, objectionable bitterness. I found the tea to be quite bland, void of any nice flavors that would elevate this tea to nice aromatic status. But, hey, the price was right and I liked the individually wrapped teabags, that's why I gave it three stars. But price and clever wrappings do not a good cup of green tea make. To date, my favorite affordable everyday tea is Sencha, Japanese green tea packaged and marketed by Yamamotoyama Tea. Give it a try, you might like it too! I prefer the loose tea style as opposed to individual tea bags, loose tea is a bit "greener", more earth friendly, omitting the tea bags and wrappers.

I bought this based on the current reviews. Wow! This is really good stuff. Very authentic flavor. And, a very good buy for the price.

You're right Kate, this is just about the best green tea I've found. I rate it right aside Tazo. Dynasty green tea is also good.

It isn't bitter and doesn't have the deep orange discoloration that is an indication of "old" green tea. It is much better than Lipton, Bigelow, and Twinnings. They make decent black tea but not green. You'll never go back to them once you try this.

I got my Mom to try this and she won't drink the other brands now.

And it is very inexpensive. Highly recommended.

Sincerely,

Rusk

P.S. I thought I already wrote a review of this, but maybe it is on one of the other packages.

Due to the rave reviews here, I ordered this tea. Now I wonder what quality of teas these reviewers have been drinking. Many of the opinions seem inflated.

My report is that for the super reasonable price of this four-box package, you get a bland, undistinguished, OK green tea. Because I drink a lot of green tea, I'll be periodically opting for Uncle Lee's Organic Green Tea, so I can make my other tastier (more expensive) organic selections last longer. For those purposes, the tea is fine.

There's nothing abjectly wrong with this tea, but there's nothing special about it, either. Its biggest asset is that it's organic and very low-priced. If that's what you're looking for, you'll be satisfied.