English Afternoon - 80 Tea Bags

Twinings

£3.5

What does it taste like? It's a beautifully delicate tea packed with refreshing flavour. Where does it come from? Our master blenders use all their knowledge of tea gardens around the world to choose just the right teas at just the right time for this blend. They wait until June, when Assam tea leaves are at their best, and blend them with high-grown Ceylon 's and only the brightest, freshest Afri

Twinings's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as R.TWINING AND COMPANY LIMITED, number 00525071. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "The same building is now number 216 Strand, the famous Twinings shop that still exists today." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.