Traditional Black Teas
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The Traditional Black Teas listed below represent the finest teas available around the world. We have not recommended which you should drink with milk as it is entirely a matter of personal taste.
Most cups of black tea require one level to heaped teaspoon per cup, depending on the strength you enjoy. All should be infused for three minutes before drinking. As with wine, black tea is sold either as a blend or from a single estate known as a Tea Garden. Blends are designed to be constant in taste, year after year, while single estate teas may show seasonal changes due to climactic variations.
About different grades of tea....
The name 'Pekoe' refers to the presence of whole leaves which are large and intact. 'Orange Pekoe' is an historic aristocratic reference to the Dutch House of Orange. Both thus refer to quality rather than flavour.
'Tippy' or 'Flowery' refer to use of the very top shoots or leaves, thus denoting superior quality. 'Broken' or 'Small Leaf' may be a smaller grade of tea or torn leaf. Finally, the fragments of leaf and dust left over from processing go to fill tea bags. (You're right to say "Ugh").
Darjeeling Tea
Darjeeling is known as the 'champagne of tea'. This exotic tea, grown in the hills of the Himalayas has a unique taste, ideally suited to a variety of foods and can be drunk any time of the day or night.
F.T.G.F.O.P = Flowery tipped golden flowery orange pekoe. It's the way that tea grading is expressed. 1 at the end (FTGFOP1) denotes 1st or top quality. Easily remembered as Far Too Good For Ordinary People!
| $46.10 | 500g Bag | |
| $10.85 | 100g Bag | |
| $14.90 | 100g Tin | |
| $2.00 | Sample Bag |
| $72.25 | 500g Bag | |
| $17.00 | 100g Bag | |
| $21.05 | 100g Tin | |
| $3.00 | Sample Bag |
| $46.55 | 500g Bag | |
| $10.95 | 100g Bag | |
| $15.00 | 100g Tin | |
| $2.00 | Sample Bag |
