The Tea Post

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Probably the best place to explore tea is your local Chinese/Asian/Oriental grocery. They'll have a bunch of different stuff, cheap, and you can try out a lot of things. Look at the packaging for words like "Oolong" "Green" "Black"

Pu-erh is a very nice, mossy tasting form of black from one particular province in China.
Genmai-cha is Japanese for green tea with roasted rice.
Sencha is Japanese, and indicates a decent quality green tea.
Bancha is Japanese, and indicates a slightly less good form of green tea. Often poured over rice as a meal in Japan, I believe?
Matcha is the expensive powdered green tea that is used in the tea ceremony.

Yamamotoyama is a good brand.

Here are a bunch of links to different tea companies:

Adagio Really nice Pu-erh, and cute tins!
Stash Good teas, can be expensive. Yamamotoyama 1690 varieties from Japan.
Republic of Tea I think somewhat overpriced, but still nice teas.
Bigelow I love their oolong. Nice stuff, reasonable prices, available in grocery stores.
Twinings Also nice stuff, reasonable prices, available in grocery stores.
Eastern Shore Also nice stuff, reasonable prices, available in grocery stores.
Celestial Seasonings Overrated, I think. I miss their Emerald Gardens tea.
Red Rose Now you know where my name comes from. I love this tea and collect the porcelain animals that come in it.

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also:

Teavana (http://www.teavana.com/)
Tea Amo Teas (http://www.teaamotea.com/) (Local to me, I think)
Upton Teas (http://www.uptontea.com/)
Ineeka Teas (http://www.ineeka.com/)

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And another:
http://www.rishi-tea.com/