A Sneak Peek at January 2022

Global Tea Championship Winner
1st Place, Earl Grey Black 

This elegant and classic Earl Grey has been the top place finisher in the Earl Grey Black category numerous times at the Global Tea Championship Awards. Made from the highest quality Yunnan black tea and cold-pressed bergamot oil from Italy, this Earl Grey is one of the finest in the world. Best enjoyed in its natural state without the addition of milk or sugar.

Ingredients: Black tea, bergamot oil, and blue cornflowers.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: MED-HIGH

Global Tea Championship Winner
2nd Place, Flavored Black

Citron Mint Black is an award-winning flavored black tea, and one of our personal favorites as well.

This blend perfectly balances the naturally sweet flavor of high-grade Yunnan black tea with organic mint and lemon, creating a delightfully refreshing flavored black tea.

Citron Mint Black is a creation of the tea master at North America’s most awarded teas companies and one of our biggest suppliers of tea

Ingredients: Black tea, mint, calendula, lemon verbena, and natural flavoring.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: HIGH

One of our favorite ways to start the day is with a strong cup of Keemun, and this first grade tea is a cut above the rest.  It’s nutty, it’s strong, and it’s earthy, but everything is balanced beautifully with a sweet and floral finish.  A perfect breakfast tea. 

Ingredients: Black tea
Origin: Fujian, China
Caffeine: HIGH

If you’re a gin and tonic fan, this is the tea for you. Vibrant gunpowder green tea gets a helping hand from juniper berries, with hints of ginger, cardamom, lemon, and cinnamon. It’s at once throat warming and soothing, but also sophisticated enough to serve as an alternative to a cocktail.

Ingredients: Gunpowder green tea, juniper berries, ginger root, lemon balm, cinnamon, star anise, cardamom, lemon extract.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: LOW-MED

Global Tea Championship Winner
3rd Place, Blended Herbal

This delightful caffeine-free treat is rich in good-for-you antioxidants. Its sweetness is pleasantly cut with tart raspberry, creating a perfect balance on the palate.

Fragrant and calming lavender adds a sophistication to this tea, further enhancing its place as part of the ideal bed time ritual.

Ingredients: Honeybush, lavender petals, & natural flavoring.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: CAFFEINE-FREE

This unique beauty is definitely different, standing out with an offbeat and delicious flavor profile. Fresh melon notes are enhanced with sweet pine and finished with unexpected notes of butter, making this an unforgettable green tea.

Ingredients: Green tea.
Origin: Fujian, China
Caffeine: LOW-MED

White teas are picked in early spring from the youngest shoots of the plant where the mild natural sweetness of new growth is most concentrated.

These first flush peony silver needles are delicately handcrafted into the shape of tiny pearls. White pearls of this exquisite quality are in high demand and becoming exceedingly rare.

With its soft mouth feel and cotton candy sweetness, white teas reflect all of nature's goodness. A perfect daytime tea.

Ingredients: White tea
Origin: Fujian, China
Caffeine: MED

This is a traditional roasted Yancha tea, also known by its Chinese name Da Hong Pao. Proper Yancha should be a perfect harmony of minerality with a honey sweetness, a roasted nuttiness, and finished with a floral elegance. This one doesn’t disappoint. An earthy tea with a great balance.

Ingredients: Oolong tea.
Origin: Fujian, China
Caffeine: MED

A caffeine-free chai, this tea starts with a base of organic velvety rooibos. Ginger, cardamom, and cinnamon create a traditional chai profile, but the vanilla bean adds a cakey sweetness, making the aroma of this tea brewing truly heavenly.

 

Ingredients: Rooibos, chai spices (ginger, cardamon, cinnamon), vanilla bean, vanilla flavoring.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: CAFFEINE-FREE

Before even steeping this tea, the aroma of this beautiful blend will make your mouth water. A gorgeous concoction of sweet and savory cinnamon, tart orange peel and licorice, this tummy-pleasing rooibos has comforting buttery notes of French toast and an addictively decadent taste that will make it a real caffeine-free crowd-pleaser. 

Ingredients: Rooibos, cinnamon, orange peel, licorice root, apple cinnamon French toast flavoring.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: CAFFEINE-FREE

This gorgeous tea is the perfect caffeinated indulgence. Strong black tea gets the sweet treatment with toasted almonds and almond sugar cookie, while the chocolatey and slightly smoky flavor of safflower balances everything out. Try it on its own, or add warm milk to further its decadence. 

Ingredients: Black teas, almonds, almond sugar cookie flavoring and safflower blossoms.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: HIGH

This tea has two personalities, depending on whether you’re going to be steeping it hot or cold.

Apples, currants, elderberries, and sour cherry make this a bracing hot beverage that’s at once tart and soothing, while serving it over ice brings out its natural sweetness from hibiscus and raspberry.

Ingredients: Apple, elderberries, currants, rosehip peels, blackberries, raspberry, flavor, hibiscus, sour cherry.
Origin: Multiple Origin Blend
Caffeine: Caffeine-Free