Flavoured Teas
Tea can also be flavoured with flower petals and oils or even spices.
Black Spicy Chai, £3.00 for 50g
One of our big sellers in the Tea Shop. Our blend contains black tea, aniseed, cinnamon pieces, ginger, black pepper, cloves, and chicory roots. A big tea in every sense. A classic taste of India.
Water boiling.
Infuse for 4 - 5 minutes, serve with or without milk, also try soya milk.
Earl Grey - Excelsior, £3.00 for 50g
Yunnan (SW China) and Ceylon teas of such high quality that they are not usually blended, with a touch of Keemun black (E China) and top grade bergamot, create an exceptional tea.
Full bodied, zesty, citrus.
Infuse 3 - 5 minutes serve with or without milk.
Earl Grey - Blue Lady, £3.00 for 50g
The same slightly spicy blend (Yunnan and Ceylon) as in the Earl Grey Excelsior but with blue mallow flower blossoms and oil of bergamot.
Full bodied, soft, slightly grapefruit taste
Infuse 3 - 5 minutes serve with or without milk.
Lapsang Souchong, £3.50 for 50g
Chinese Black Tea. When picking this tea, the larger Souchong leaves are used, they are more ripe and come from lower down the plants. Following roasting in hot pans the tea is smoked over Pine woods giving a very smokey note and taste.
Water boiling.
Infuse for 3 - 4 minutes, best without milk.
Rose Congou, £3.80 for 50g
A black tea from China scented with rose petals, the aroma will remind you of 'Turkish Delight' (but without the sweetness).
Water boiling.
Infuse for 3 - 4 minutes, best without milk.
Russian Caravan, £2.60 for 50g
Named after the Teas that were once carried by Camel Caravans back to Russia from China. Contains some Lapsang, so you will detect some smokey notes.
Hearty and warming.
Water boiling.
Infuse 3 - 5 minutes, try with or without milk.
Sencha with Red Ginseng, £4.40 for 50g
This is a type of Japanese Green Tea (called a guest tea, i.e. special!) Here it is blended with red ginseng and passion fruit rounding off the dry taste of the 'green' with natural sweetness. This is a very good introduction to green teas.
It is best served after giving your tea a 'Wash'. You can easily do this by immediately pouring off the 1st brewing of the tea and then allow the 2nd brew to steep for a few minutes in the usual way.
Water just 'off' the boil.
Infuse 3-5 minutes, best without milk.