Holiday teas coming Very soon – along with an option to “Make your own” Countdown to Christmas kit…. PLUS several new Chinese teas, a small amount of Korean green tea …. and MOST Exciting…… Kateri found a new Ukiyo Travel Tea Tumbler – that is easy to use and mostly stainless steel for durability. We have some in shop now! Watch the video below to see how simple it is to use!
We ended up having 5 sessions with 5-6 guests per session. The teas we sampled were:
Nine Ladies Dancing – Scottish grown tea, limited stock each year. Absolutely every person in attendance really enjoyed this tea. It is a Very smooth black tea with excellent flavor. We WILL get some of this next year for sure! However, if there is enough interest, we Can get some still this year and it has been added to the website for Pre-order HERE. ….. This IS a Luxury tea, at $2.80 per gram – but Oh so special. I am selling it by the gram to make it affordable to anyone to at least try it or gift it to someone who will really appreciate it. We used 4gm for a 12oz pot and got 2 quality steeps out of the leaf.
Sovereign Bud – Heirloom yellow tea – originally an Emperor Tribute tea, the leaf for this tea is said to come from the same bushes that provided leaf for the Chinese Emperor(s). You can purchase small, affordable portions as a gift to yourself, or someone you love!
The following teas are all from The Chinese Tea Company (CTCo) and were all very much enjoyed by most attendees in varying degrees. Keep reading to find out about purchasing any of these. Pre-ordering now will aid my cash flow to bring in a full batch of CTCo teas ASAP – Travtea.net
Tie Guan Yin Red Heart – a very special oolong that comes prepacked in an 8gram bag that we steeped at least 4x and it still had Lots of life in it. We have this one priced on the website at $10.50 per 8gm.
Pricing is already on the site to pre-order any of these 3 as well:
Mo Gan Mountain Snow Buds; Anji Bai Cha, and Anji Bai Cha Aromatic Spiral – All of these were well received, especially the Aromatic Spiral. They are rare, small farm, small batch production from Spring 2024 harvests.
Chinese Tea Company website offers MANY more small farm teas that sound just as delicious as the 4 we tried. I want to put together a large order to save on shipping, and your input can help to make this happen. Pre-order (if you want the full size shown), or deposits toward a smaller portion. [A few customers have already indicated some that they would like to try small portions of, if we get enough interest.] If you comment on this post – others can see what you are interested in and it may help to encourage a group buy.
IMPORTANT INFO: Prices are shown in British pounds on the site – if you add 40% to the price shown that should closely cover the exchange rate and sales tax. There will be very little markup if you are purchasing a full unit as shown – making this more of a co-op purchase. You are still getting a significant savings as you will not be paying for any shipping ($20-30 approx). (I do not yet know how it will be treated for customs.)
If full units are beyond your means or interest – tell me what teas and quantities you DO want; if there is enough interest to bring in a full unit I will take a deposit towards your purchase. [NOTE: if you are not purchasing a full unit, there will be some additional markup to cover handling and packaging, and a small profit)
[Note; if you like ripe puerhs, we also have some Old Tea Tree from CTCo – please try it while we have it – I hope to get more of it as well]
Juyan Webster is the founder of The Chinese Tea Company. She was born and raised in Zhejiang Province, China. Click here for more about Juyan
This is the Chinese connection that I was hoping for. I spent more than an hour discussing teas and sampling a couple of puerhs. Juyan is PASSIONATE about tea – and she Really Knows her tea – she is my Chinese version of Rajen Baruah in Assam India.
I am so confident and thrilled about the Very Special teas I brought back from her shop. Some of these teas I could only get very small quantities. I will send out an email soon about the upcoming sampling session that I want to arrange so we can share the “cream of the crop” so to speak. All of the teas that are available for purchase have been set up in our register and can be purchased in shop now.
Look for a ripe and a raw puerh, a more rare Tie Guan Yin (from the oldest tea bushes used for this type of tea, growing on one of the highest mountains in the area), as well as a very special Snowbud green tea – that is only available because of Juyan’s resources. It is a tea not normally exported because only a small quantity is made each year – and primarily enjoyed by the locals – from new growth leaves plucked while there is sometimes still snow on the bushes
