Taylors Yorkshire Tea

As a general everyday tea for washing down something greasy like fish and chips or a cooked breakfast, I like a strong traditional brew like Yorkshire Tea. I'm less keen on it with cake, or by itself, but it's robustness serves well with something that needs cutting through.

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Score: 4

Taylors of Harrogate

Dorset Tea

Though the company who market this were founded in 1934, it was in 2009 that Dorset Tea was marketed. It is distributed round the country by Tesco and Waitrose, though I only became aware of it when we moved to Southampton, which is almost next door to Dorset. The company has a range of other Dorset Tea branded teas, such as Earl of Dorset and Strawberries and Cream.

It's a lively and pleasant everyday tea. There's nothing particularly flavoursome or interesting baout the tea - it's simple brown stuff which doesn't call attention to itself/ And that's ideal for washing down a cooked breakfast or a fish and chip supper. It's great for breakfast with toast and jam, or afternoon tea with a cake or biscuit. It can also be drunk on its own as a simple refresher.

It's a flexible, pleasant, undemanding everyday tea - and sometimes that's just what you want. I like it.

Score: 6

CafeDirect Kilimanjaro

This is a lovely coffee - easy to make and very forgiving, it offers up a splendid array of roast and citric flavours, harmonizing and balancing to produce a beautiful mouthful of proper coffee. This is easy drinking stuff, you can knock back in gallons, yet has plenty of flavours, intricate and subtle, to explore if you wish to sip slowly and savour.

Score: 8

CafeDirect

Aldi Alcafe Latte

Not good really. But then, most of these instant lattes are not good. It's a warm drink, with some powdery instant coffee and powdery instant milk flavour - pretty much as expected.

Score: 2

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Aldi tea and coffee

Creamy instant coffees