It's actually not that sweet until you add the sugar and milk. It just has a hint of vanilla flavour which gets enhanced with the other stuff. Twinnings is good too, we have a whole selection of English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast, Earl Grey, Lady grey, etc etc etc... My gf is more of a coffee drinker but since I grew up overseas, I was raised on tea with breakfast. I spent 3 years in Sri Lanka (where Ceylon tea comes from) and have been to tea plantations where there were THOUSANDS of types of tea being grown. It smelled SOOOO good. Unfortunately, that's about the only good thing to come out of Sri Lanka. ugh.. never again. And on a side note, never move somewhere where you know there's a civil war going on. Not fun!