Or Tea? Tea Tasting Guide

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Tasting Guide Here we will offer you a few tips on how to taste and judge our teas. Simply follow the steps and you will become a tea master in no time.

Tea Basics for Dummies Masters There are 5 major types of tea, all coming from a plant called Camellia Sinensis.

White & Green tea have the highest level of antioxidant and should never be brewed by boiling water.

Oolong is a semi-oxidised tea which turns into a dark twirling shape after processing, that’s why it is given a name Oolong – Black Dragon in Chinese.

Black tea is the most versatile of all, can be mixed with milk, lemon, sugar, or other ingredients. It constitutes around 75% of the world’s tea consumption.

Pu’er is the classic food pairing tea. It contains microorganisms through fermentation which help activating the healthy bacteria in our stomach, hence aiding digestion.

Loose Leaf Tea

Tea Fannings

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Tea fannings are the tea dust from broken tea leaves, releasing more tannins during the brew, therefore bitterer. On the other hand, whole leaf tea are much more delicate with fuller and subtler flavour.

Caffeine in Tea All pure tea leaves contain caffeine, in the others word, all herbal, fruit, and botanical blends are caffeine free!

CAFFEINE FREE

CAFFEINE

Natural Flavouring

BERGAMOT

It’s very common to use flavouring in specialty tea to give it a different dimension. Earl Grey is a classic example. However, make sure the flavouring is from a natural source.

Did you know?

Tea is the most drank beverage in the world after water.

It takes about 2,000 tiny tea leaves to produce 1 pound of tea. It also means around 10 leaves in a bag.

Tea bag was first invented in New York in 1908. It was Lipton who industrialised tea bags for mass market in 1952.

Turkey is the largest tea consumption per capita in the world, followed by Ireland & UK.

I was born in

1908

Let the tea tasting begin….

4 items :

boiling water + teapot + small paper cups + tea

• Open a sachet, smell the fragrance and check the appearance of the whole leaf tea.

Brew the tea following the guideline on the tea tag.

(TIPS: Boiling water temperature will drop around 10°c every minute.

If you need 80°c, just leave the boiling water to cool for 2 minutes.)

When ready, pour a small amount of tea in the paper cups.

Remember to use a new cup for a different tea.

Scent the brewed tea before taking a sip, try to roll the tea in your tongue to get the most taste out of it.

ARE YOU READY?

Judge me!

Please find the teas below included in this tea tasting pack.

Score me by appearance, aroma, and taste on the scale of 1-5, 5 being the highest. Share your feedback to our sales team, it will help us enormously for our continuous improvement.

Dragon Well

with Osmanthus Chinese Green Tea

Mount Feather

Dragon Jasmine Green

Chinese Green Tea

Chinese Green Tea ORGANIC

Green tea with osmanthus flowers

Organic green tea

ORGANIC

Organic green tea with jasmine flower parts

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Monkey Pinch

Lychee White Peony

Long Life Brows

Oolong with Peach Flavour

White Tea with Lychee Flavour

White Silver Needles

ORGANIC

Oolong tea, peach flavouring

Organic white tea and rose petals with lychee flavouring

ORGANIC

Organic white tea

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Towering Kung Fu

Slimming Pu’er

EnerGinger

Keeman Congu Black Tea

Puerh Tea with Corn Flower

Herbal Infusion ORGANIC

Black tea

Pu-Erh tea with marigold flower, cornflower petals and Roman camomile

Lemongrass, ginger, rosemary and lemon verbena

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Ginseng Beauty

La Vie en Rose

Detoxania

Green Tea with Herbal Infusion

Black Tea with Rose

Green Tea with Herb & Fruit Infusion ORGANIC

ORGANIC

Green tea with liquorice root, lemongrass, natural ginseng flavouring and ginseng root

Apple, rosehip shells, rose petals and black tea

Green tea, apple, fennel, rosehip shells, turmeric, white hibiscus, lavender, ginger, juniper berry, black pepper, rose petals, natural flavouring

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Kung Flu Fighter

Beeeee Calm

Merry Peppermint

Fruit and Herbal Infusion

Chamomile Infusion

Herbal Infusion

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ORGANIC

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Apple pieces, ginger, orange peel, peppermint, sage leaves, eucalyptus, elderflower, flavourings

Organic camomile with honey and vanilla flavouring

Liquorice root, peppermint, fennel, basil, peppermint flavouring

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The Secret Life of Chai

Queen Berry

TropiCoco

Herb & Spice Infusion

Fruit Infusion

Fruit Infusion

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Black tea, ginger, star anise, orange peel, cardamom seed, pink pepper, clove buds, cinnamon flavouring, grapefruit flavouring

ORGANIC

Hibiscus, elderberry, currant, rosehip, black currant, blueberries, strawberry pieces and natural flavourings

ORGANIC

Mango, apple, coconut pieces, hibiscus white, orange peel, liquorice root, roasted chicory root and flavouring

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Duke’s Blues

Tiffany’s Breakfast

Yin Yang

Earl Grey with Corn Flower

English Breakfast Black Tea

Coffee Flavoured Black Tea

ORGANIC

ORGANIC

Black tea with bergamot flavouring and cornflower petals

Organic black tea

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Black tea, roasted chicory root, roasted mate, liquorice root, roasted coffee beans, ice coffee flavouring, caramel flavouring, vanilla flavouring, milk flavouring

CuBaMint

The Playful Pear

African Affairs

Fruit and Herbal Infusion

Green Tea with Fruit Infusion

Premium Cocoa & Raisin Rooibos

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Green tea(sencha), green tea(the himalayas), Pear, pear flavouring, marigold flowers

Rooibos, grapes, flavouring, cocoa kernels

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Peppermint, apple pomace, cucumber, apple, rosehip, acid: citric acid, basil, flavouring, cornflower petals

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