![]() Please have a roam around our website and watch the short films, or have a look at our social media and choose the first tea you fall in love with. You can read our full comparison article here: Loose Tea vs Tea Bags. And our pure tea leaves can go straight in your compost, food waste or under the roses. It can all be done, sustainably and simply with a teapot, or infuser, and loose leaf tea. Then there is the industrial waste and carbon use in production. Think of the glues, the bleaches and the industrial chemicals used to turn wood pulp, plastic or corn into tea bags. Think of the fields of corn used to make “silken” plastic mesh, not to mention the virgin plastics used to make many of the most expensive tea bags. Think of the forests cut down to make paper tea bags – even the few, truly biodegradable ones. ![]() Loose tea is 100% plastic-free - unlike most tea bags which are an unsustainable use of precious resources for single use. Loose leaf tea is the most environmentally friendly way to drink tea. If you would like a regular order of loose tea, then we have a curated tea subscription here. Our tea gifts are perfect as a special present for an avid tea drinker or someone new to loose leaf tea. We have a range of tea that's great with milk here. Our focus is, and always has been, on ethical and responsible relationships with producers. We know where our tea comes from and how it is grown and crafted. We work directly with tea farmers and tea communities, securing unique harvests with full traceability. Yerba Maté contains a significant amount of Matteine which is similar to caffeine without the crash.Our teas are sourced directly from farmers, from a range of amazing places and people across the world, including Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Japan, New Zealand, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Croatia and the UK.Īll of our loose tea is vegetarian, vegan, Gluten Free, and calorie free - being completely natural. It contains Vitamins A, B1 (Thiamine), B2 (Riboflavin), C, E and 15 amino acids, along with a high level of antioxidants. Popular amongst hikers in the Andes, Yerba Maté is known to increase physical endurance, curb the appetite, sharpen the mind, and assist the gallbladder in processing toxins from the body. Traditionally, a gourd full of Maté is passed around a group of people many times and the straw is never used to stir the leaf inside the gourd. The earthy, herbal flavor steadily mellows with each subsequent steeping, though the invigorating effects are only heightened with the passing of each round. ![]() Due to its lack of tannic content, the leaf is left in the gourd so as to allow multiple steepings and can also be brewed with cold water. The combination of short brewing times, lots of leaf and the small capacity of the Yixing pots produce multiple steepings of what is considered the very essence of one of the highest forms of tea.Ī highly stimulating infusion widely consumed in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil, Yerba Maté is traditionally drank from a cuia (cured gourd) through a bombilla (filtered straw). After decades of use, simply adding hot water to the pot alone can yield its own tea from the years of tea oil accumulation. In the Gong Fu style, very small tea pots made of an especially dense clay called Yixing (pronounced ee-shing) are used because the residue or tea oils from the tea more easily accumulate in the pot, seasoning it with the flavor of the one kind of tea reserved for that particular pot. The Gong Fu style of serving tea originated in China, but at some point reached epically proportioned importance in Taiwan (formerly Formosa, thus the name of many Oolongs grown in Taiwan). Oolong is regarded as the ultimate art form in tea making in Taiwan, which has adopted and perfected the brewing method for it, known as Gong Fu. Oolong (pronounced wu-long) is a Chinese or Taiwanese semi-oxidized tea, spanning perhaps the most diverse spectrum of flavor and body between Green and Red/Black Teas. ![]()
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