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Tea List
Black Tea
Earl Grey Supreme £4.50/ 100g
Our Earl Grey will change your understanding of how Earl Grey should taste. Made from a base of exceptional whole leaf Ceylon scented with bergamot and sprinkled with cornflowers to create a tea that delights all the senses. A refreshing and bright tea that is specifically blended for those who enjoy their tea with milk – its addition compliments rather than overwhelms the tea.
Assam is the world’s largest tea growing region.
This is where the Assam bush, Camellia Sinensis Assamica, was discovered in 1823.
Assam tea is low-grown and holds a reputation as the strongest, full-bodied tea to be found.
Selected from countless Assam teas for its rich maltiness and honey sweetness.
Perfect for those who love a strong and malty cup of tea, with or without milk.
Ceylon £4.50/ 100g
Darjeeling 2nd Flush £6.50/ 100g
Organic Bohea Lapsang Supreme £19.50/ 100g
Rich, excitingly pungent, full of the rounded almost peaty smoke notes given by cunningly banked fires of local pine. Complex and teasing with a hazel-sweet freshness behind the supple smoke. The difference between Bohea and commercial Lapsang is enormous, perhaps similar to the distinction between mass-produced whiskies and slowly made, properly aged, artisan malts. Drying the leaves slowly over bark-less pine wood fires gives Wuyi Bohea soft, lingering smokiness, making it an incredibly easy-to-slip-down and sophisticated after dinner tea.
Oolong Tea
Yellow Gold £4.95/ 50g
Hand-rolled rolled leaf, in clusters of variegated colour from light olive to ivy-green.
The leaves open fully to create a yellow-gold infusion with lime-green hues.
The aroma and flavour combines deeply satisfying caramel notes with tangy citrus and
fresh grasses, supported by quenching, syrupy sweetness.
Oolong tea are drunk in China for their outstanding flavour and health benefits –
they are reputed to aid digestion and improve fat metabolism.
Oriental Beauty £8.50/ 50g
Soft, glycerous, harmonious and rounded, with burnished, apple-wood flavours.
Calm, serene and complete.
Oolong tea are drunk in China for their outstanding flavour and health benefits –
they are reputed to aid digestion and improve fat metabolism.
Green Tea
Moroccan Mint £6.50/ 100g
With a perfect balance of gunpowder green tea and
dried green mint leaf, this stunning classic is refreshing, reviving and inspiring.
Clean and refreshing, the mint flavours prominent and sustained over a sappy,
earthy, nourishing back-palate.
Organic Dragon Well £8.95/ 100g
Enticing sweet-edged aromas combining fresh plucked bud with teasing orchard fruit. Complex and multi-layered with warm, creamy, soft plant notes filled out by understated peach.
The traditional method of making Dragon Well is what really sets it apart.
Each individual tea bud is hand-pressed and shaped in a wok to achieve the perfect level of roasting.
Jasmine Pearls £6.25/ 50g
Poetic in form and fragrance, these stunning little pearls produce
the most memorable jasmine tea you’ll ever taste.
Each one is hand-fashioned by twisting exceptionally long downy leaf bud sets together and rolling them into silvery pearls. These are then scented with fresh, aromatic jasmine flowers.
When steeped, the Jasmine Pearls unravel to reveal a scent so elegant you may wish to bottle it and wear it as a perfume. Beyond its sensual qualities, green tea is a well-known source of antioxidants.
Sencha is Japan’s most popular tea. This tea hails from Japan’s premier Sencha region,
Shizuoka where the land is blessed with a unique mineral-rich soil, a mild climate
throughout the year, plenty of sunshine, the perfect level of rainfall and dense costal fog.
Our Sencha is composed of the first picked leaves of the season.
Soft and full with striking vegetal notes, a rich, velvet thickness on the tongue
and mild astringency with a sweetness on the finish.
Pu-erh Tea
2000 Gold Tip £12/ 50g
Offering the rousing complexity offered by only the best puerh, the Golden Tip has the added
dimension of fruit, echoing the juicy taste and texture of a Japanese plum.
Puerh tea has been touted as a weight loss miracle.
It stimulates digestion. Puerh tea is so different to other teas - its taste, aroma and texture
have an appeal which transcends analysis and intellect.
Those that truly love Puerh tea find that its appeal is not just in its unique flavours and textures,
but also in the way it soothes both mind and body.
White Tea
White Peony £6.50/ 100g
Organic Silver Needle £8.95/ 50g
Jasmine Scented Silver Needle £8.95/ 50g
Herbal Infusion
Rooibos £4.50/ 100g
Originating from South Africa, our Rooibos is high in anti-oxidants and caffeine free.
For many people this superlative grade of Rooibos infusion offers a great combination of health and flavour.
Whole Lemon Verbena £3/25g
Fresh and vivid with mint-like freshness and pressed lemon zest pungency.
Softer, grassier notes to finish. Produced from French Verveine leaves, this popular herbal infusion has a light
buttery taste, complemented by a subtle lemon scenting.
Combined is a drink to suit any caffeine intolerant individual.
Whole Chamomile Flowers £6.50/ 100g
Bright, full, mellow floral depths with soft, refreshingly bitter vegetal complexities in
the finish. Sweet yet austere: that compelling chamomile combination.
Whole Peppermint Leaf £3//25g
Striking, strong, insistent, deep and grippy mint flavours with an almost oily mid-palate,
subsiding cleanly towards an intensely perfumed finish. Aids digestion.
Blackcurrant & Hibiscus £6.50/ 100g
Whole Rose Buds £6.50/ 100g
The raw beauty of whole rosebuds provides the definitive 'herbal' experience.
Perfectly formed, these intensely fragrant and beautiful rosebuds release
an almost euphoric aroma and flavour. The infusion is soothing, soft and refreshing.
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Assam
My Basic Tea Knowledge
All tea comes from the plant – Camellia Senensis
There are many types of teas but they all originate from this same plant. What makes a tea a black tea, a green tea or a white tea (and so on) depends on how the tealeaves had been processed.
Here are the different types of teas:
Black, Oolong, Green, Pu-Erh & White
As an analogy, if we think of an apple, how when you cut a slice off it, the flesh becomes yellow and brown – discoloring with time. This is called ‘oxidation.’ This occurs with the tealeaves – the more it is handled and processed, the darker it gets and becomes a type of tea.
Black tea has been processed a lot, it has been either or all been roasted, fried, rolled, twisted, dried, smoked… it contains the most caffeine too because of the oxidation process.
Ceylon
Mao Jian
They must have had a good night’s rest, rolling around on the farmer’s stock because the next day, the farmer discovered that all his stock had turned another colour. In horror, he took it to be roasted anyway hoping for the best because that was all the stock he had – he had no choice even though all the tea leaves dark brown. Ruined, basically!
The farmer persisted, trying to sell it as his own “unique” variation to at least make back his cost. And this is how I believe Black tea was invented. The farmer made a killing with this new variety of tea that no one else had had before.
Lapsang
Scientists have now proven that Green teas help quicken your metabolism so that your body can digest your food quicker before it turns your belly into Buddha’s. They have also found that it has a lot of Vitamin C and antioxidants to strengthen your immune system and lower cholesterol. There are so many health benefits with Green teas from preventing bad breath to certain fatal illnesses. Some of the oldest people in the world swear longevity by Green tea.
Fad diets and magazines have been running on a band wagon about how you can loose weight with Green teas (and Pu-Erh)– making us all run to the supermarket to buy crap versions of it.
Any good sensible person will tell you that just drinking green tea does not make you loose weight – especially if your diet is of fast and convenience foods- of course, its all about your diet and your lifestyle – including green tea in your life however, aids your wellbeing by making you feel healthy and nourished because of its health benefits.
Jasmine Scented Silver Needle
The White tea ‘Silver Needle’ leaves still has its layer of fur, some of it is scented with beautiful jasmine – a layer of flowers in blossom is laid above the tea overnight when its most potent, the fragrance falling onto the tea. One of my most favourite teas – I can only drink it in celebration, for wellbeing – like a fine champagne.
If you are into your teas, Pu-Erh tea is one of the most expensive teas, it has been fermented and is known as a vintage tea – batches are sold by year dates.
More centuries ago, servants were to deliver to the King or Queen of some dynasty in a far away land some precious green tea but again, bad weather caught them out, the tea sat inside a saddle of a horse rotting away. It took them ages to get to this far away dynasty – by the time they had gotten there – the tea was ruined. Pressed down by all the weight of cargo and fermented. It had all stuck together like a cake.
In fear of getting beheaded or such, they served the tea to royalty who happened to have loved the earthy, woody and slightly metallic taste of this tea.
Pu-Erh tea is like a fine vintage wine and for some the taste has to be acquired. It is a beautiful tea, also full of antioxidants and known for its digestion aiding qualities – breaking down fats.
Different types of teas are consumed in different ways. Be careful not to scorch the green and white teas with boiling water.
Rose Buds
Peppermint
Chamomile tea, fruit teas etc are ‘infusions’ – they are not tea because they didn’t come from the plant camellia senensis.
Enjoying tea has become a passion. I love tea - I love how from one plant - each tea tastes so different and wonderful. Its similar to loving wine - except its better for you - and I love pairing it with food too.
LELUU x
