We've added some delicious new flavored teas to our collection here at The English Tea Store. Each has their own benefits and we're here to share more about them. First Flavor : JASMINE You can get the benefits of Jasmine in a Green Tea option or an Earl Grey option. What is Jasmine? Jasmine …
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January 2015 Teas of the Month – China Jasmine Green
Earlier this month we presented our first tea of the month for January, Buckingham Palace Garden Party. Our other tea is the China Jasmine Green tea. The description on our website is very brief: "The China Jasmine tea blend from English Tea Store is a green tea with a surprising body with the captivating character of …
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January 2015 Teas of the Month – Buckingham Palace Garden Party
January brings fresh beginnings and with it, many new resolutions. There are the typical "lose ten pounds," "make time for family" and other very worthwhile goals. But many of us choose to try new things, or master a hobby or skill. The English Tea Store brings you teas of the month, which is a featured selection offered …
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Jasmine Dragon Tears and Michael Williams’ “Trajan’s Arch” – Magical Realism and Real Magic
The English Tea Store’s Jasmine Dragon Tears tea is a steamed, hand-rolled, jasmine-infused experience that is not to be rushed. Heated in water just shy of boiling, the pearls unfurl to reveal themselves and the top bud of the plant, still bearing soft hairs, so indicative of a gentle handling and masterful touch. The tea …
Tea Adventure — Exotic Flowering Tea
Trying a tea for the first time is a true adventure. There’s an excitement in the air that’s hard to describe, accompanied by a dozen questions running through your mind. How do you properly brew it? Is it good quality? Will you like it? It costs how much? They’re kidding, right? And so on. Thus …
Spotlight on Flavored Tea
There are those tea drinkers (myself among them) who believe that a good cup of tea needs nothing else, whether it be milk, cream, sweeteners, or lemon. But everyone likes what they like, and, of course, there are many people who could not even conceive of drinking a cup of tea without assorted and sundry …
A Bouquet in Your Teapot, Pt. II — Herbals Made from Flowers
There’s a bouquet in your teapot, with teas having flowers added in (explored in Part I). Then, there are infusions made entirely of flowers. They bring fragrances, exotic tastes, and health benefits to your teatime — oops…I mean “infusion time.” There’s a lot of information online about the health benefits of floral infusions, also called …
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A Bouquet in Your Teapot, Pt. I — Flowers in Your Tea
There’s a bouquet in your teapot — especially if you are steeping a tea containing, or processed with, flowers. With Spring in the air, the time is right to try one of these fragrant and exotic tea sensations. And the choices are bountiful. Flowers seem to play a big part in tea in several ways: …
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A Romance with Jasmine Tea
There is a lot to be said for Valentine’s Day - a day that the collective conscious of the world will focus on love. As this is a tea blog, I’ve extended the talk about love to include the things that we love to focus on all the time – like tea. All this talk …
The Christmas Cookie Exchange Report
We just hosted our second annual cookie exchange tea, and it was a smashing success. The halls were decked and "fa la las" played quietly on the background while we sipped our cups of cheer. In this case the cups of cheer were a spicy cinnamon black tea and a blooming jasmine tea. The cinnamon …
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