[Home]
[Tea]
[Black Tea]
[Green Tea]
[Red Tea]
[Oolong]
[Tea Bags]
[About Tea]
[Tea Gift Sets]

Tea Facts

Almost all tea comes from the plant Camellia sinensis.The major growing regions for tea are in China and Sri Lanka. Through an oxidation process referred to in the tea industry as fermentation, the three main tea groups are formed. Though there are many grades and subgroups, black, oolong, and green teas are the three main categories of Camellia sinensis. Red tea, known as Rooibos is from Africa. Unlike the Asian teas, red tea is from the plant Aspalathus linoaris.

Brewing Tea

Notice in the pictures we have on all of our loose leaf tea pages, how much the volume changes from the dry to wet state. All pictures of loose leaf tea are representative of a one rounded teaspoon sample. When we brew tea for ourselves, we steep about one teaspoon per cup for about 3-4 minutes. Through experimentation, everyone can develop the perfect amount and brewing time for themselves.

Enjoying Tea

We sell tea in vacuum-packed, 1 and 2 ounce packages. We offer gourmet tea at low prices. You won’t receive a fancy tin but you will receive fresh, high quality tea for a low, low price. We sell all of our tea in loose form. Whether you use fancy teapots, infuser presses, Pyrex measuring cups, ordinary jars, tea strainers, or brew with loose leaves in your cup, whole leaf tea is almost as easy as bagged tea to prepare. Almost all of the leaves sink to the bottom anyway. And with bulk style tea you can see the quality. Unlike bagged tea, there are hardly any stems. All tea but especially the rolled styles of tea, like oolong and white tea, can be appreciated much better without the bags.Think how frustrating it would be for fortune tellers to have to read your tea leaves through a bag.

Even though we recommend using loose leaf tea and developing your own blends, some bagged tea is very tasty and very popular. When you find a blend you like, it may be hard to create an exact match yourself. We drink many bagged teas and we sell a variety of popular bagged teas.

Enjoy. _

[Black Tea] [Green Tea] [Red Tea] [Oolong] [Tea Bags] [About Tea] [Tea Gift Sets]