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What is Tea

All About Tea

Tea, cha, chai, thé….there are literally thousands of different teas, grown in over fifty countries drunk in various ways from iced to spiced throughout the world.  It’s no wonder the tea world ...

How to brew the perfect cup of tea

Brew one teaspoon of Tea by Birdy per cup. Use freshly drawn, filtered water at correct temperature.Remove leaves from infusion after brewing.For Iced teas, use two teaspoons per cup allowing infu...

How fresh is your tea & how to store it?

If you’re wondering how long they will stay that fresh, the teas will hold onto their quality for up to 2 years – as long as they’re stored in really air-tight containers and are kept in a coo...

Flavoured Teas

Flavoured teas are made by adding dried flowers, fruits, herbs, spices or essential oils to white, green, yellow, oolong black or dark teas.  The additional flavourings must work in harmony with t...

Organic Teas

Some tea farmers prefer to cultivate their tea plants without the use of chemical fertilisers, weedicides, herbicides, and pesticides.  If a tea farmer wants to sell his teas as ‘organic’ an...

Single Estate Teas

These are teas that have been grown on one particular tea garden, estate or plantation and the name of that garden is put on the packet – for example, Glenburn Estate in Darjeeling, Lovers’ Leap in...

Single origin teas

These are blends of teas grown in one particular region or country – for example, Darjeeling, Assam, Ceylon, Kenya. 

Tea plantations

Tea plantations and estates can be huge farms with thousands and thousands of tea plants covering hundreds of acres of land; or they can be tiny gardens or smallholdings that are home to just ...

Tea types & processing

There are six categories of tea: white, green, yellow, oolong, black, and dark (pu-erh is a dark tea). The different types are categorised by the level of oxidisation or fermentation that takes p...

The tea plant & how it grows

The tea plant likes to grow in acid soil in places where temperatures are between 10º C and 35º C, although some varietals can survive short periods of frost and snow in the winter months. Ra...