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Our 2017 Top Ten Green Teas. Top Ten Green Teas You Must Try At the UK Loose Leaf Tea Company, we want to help you to find your favourite teas. We are always on the search for new teas to add to our extensive and ever-growing collection. Our passionate search for the best quality, beneficial and delicious teas takes us far and wide but means we can offer you, or your business, tasty, refreshing and healthy teas within days. With such an extensive range, it can be overwhelming to decide which one of our many green teas to try. For...

The Benefits Of Organic Tea. Versatile and adaptable, there really is a tea for every occasion. Whether you like black tea, green tea, red tea or white tea, there is a tea colour for any mood. Drunk first thing in the morning, throughout the day or before bedtime, there is a tea for every moment and to suit every taste. Tea can be soothing, comforting, invigorating and restorative, not only does it help to improve our mood, but it also has a vast range of health benefits too. It is no wonder that tea is the super-drink, being the second...

How Gorkhaland Protests are Affecting the Supply of Darjeeling Tea. With strikes and riots currently unfolding across West Bengal, India, tea companies across the world are finding their supply of Darjeeling tea severely affected. The current unrest in the otherwise idyllic Indian Himalayan foothills has meant that the production of one of the most valued and expensive teas has come to a grinding halt worldwide.    What is Darjeeling Tea?  Darjeeling tea, also known as the ‘Champagne of teas’, originates from the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India. Prised for its delicate taste and floral aroma, Darjeeling tea is available...

How to make home made cold brew tea The cold brew method is simplicity at its best. You’re just steeping tea in water for hours, hot water can bring out the tannic, bitter flavors in tea if made incorrectly. In the absence of heat, you’re left with perfectly refreshing, super smooth tea, ready for the summer sun.   The method: Stand by this is going to blow your mind, take your favourite loose leaf tea add it to one of our self fill tea bags and place in your container, add the best quality water you can we find bottled...

Peach Garden Fruit Infusion I will admit that during childhood I had a quite blinkered vision of tea. Not only was it a drink that your nan - who was a gazillion year's old - drunk, but it was also a horrendous, weirdly brown, stewed monstrosity. There was absolutely nothing appealing in it at all. A glass of coke or Ribena was much better. Green tea was only sold in health shops and was reserved for people who were of the hippy inclination, and fruit tea was limited to strawberry or grapefruit I seem to remember.Naturally though as I grew...