Black Tea

From May onwards, the famed Darjeeling summer teas are produced with succulent leaves and a sprinkling of silvery tips.

This is one of the best Assam we tasted this year. Composed of whole black leaf and a huge proportion of golden tips. For the dedicated Assam connoisseur.

INCREDIBLE BREAKFAST TEA

Assam is the world’s largest tea growing region. This is where Assam bush, Camellia sinensis assamica, was discovered in 1823. Assam tea is low-grown and holds a reputation as the strongest, full-bodied tea to be found.

CHINA BREAKFAST TEA

A clean and assertive Keemum of excellent standard. Perfect for everyday drinking.

The most outstanding example of a Keemun tea produced in the last three years.

Keemun Hao Ya is composed of tiny midnight black tips.

One of the most outstanding Ceylon teas you will ever drink. JING Ceylon is composed of long whole leaf from New Vithanakanda tea garden in Sri Lanka. Takes well to milk although best drunk black. Full bodied, soothing and complex.

Strong and full-bodied, this black tea from rich-soiled Yunnan province is particularly good first thing in the morning. Its underlying sweetness also plays well with a late afternoon slice of Madeira cake or a sticky piece of baklava.

Rich, excitingly pungent, full of the rounded almost peaty smoke notes given by cunningly banked fires of local pine. Complex and teasing with a hazel-sweet freshness behind the supple smoke.

Richly and smoulderingly smoky yet with great harmony and wealth of aroma, leaving an impression of almost peaty warmth.

JING Earl Grey will change your understanding of how Earl Grey should taste. Made from a base of exceptional whole leaf Ceylon scented with bergamot and sprinkled with cornflowers to create a tea that delights all the senses.

A black tea scented with sumptuous, moistly ripe vanilla and a soft, raisin-sweet edge.

The sweetest black tea from Guangdong in Southern China. Scented with Lychee. It is the best tea for making ice tea, simply add a little to some cold water and allow to infuse over night in the fridge.

Hajua Estate Assam black tea with great flavour, body and richness.