I grew up and still reside in the Southern US. Until recently, I never invested much thought in tea, usually drinking it sweet and black the way it was prepared by family. Now that I've become more tea-aware, I've moved away from the habit of making exclusively black tea from fannings with mountains of sugar. I really haven't settled on a tea variety as I haven't done much exploring, but I prefer hot whole leaf tea with a very small to no amount of sugar.
The most interesting tea I've had was Adagio Tea's Snowbud blend ( http://www.adagio.com/white/snowbud.html... )
If that sounds worth a try then you should know that they ship to teh Deutschland.