July’s Tea Box

‘Tis the month for icing teas! We hope everyone who joined us at the Iced Tea-Off had a blast. Two of this month’s teas, Ginger Peach from the Tea Spot and Strawberry Mint from Herbal Republic, were featured at the Iced Tea-Off were met with high scores and happy sippers. Try them hot (if you’re one of those hot tea fanatics who can handle hot tea in this weather, or perhaps live in the North Pole?) or iced! Check out our newsletter for an in-depth explanation on how to cold-brew tea. Silver Service’s Quince Green is the green tea this month, a surprisingly delicious and well-balanced combination that uses sencha and fruit pieces. The rooibos this month is Aromatica’s Vanilla Honeybush – we were actually shocked when we cold-brewed it at how tasty it is iced! However you enjoy your teas, we hope you do, and that you’re having a wonderful summer. Happy sipping!

Aromatica’s Vanilla Honeybush

Description: Smooth aromatic vanilla caramel flavour. Delicious hot or as an iced tea.

Ingredients: Honeybush, natural vanilla flavour, vanilla bits

Jenny, “Mellow. Sweet. Gold.”

Herbal Republic’s Strawberry Mint

Description: Winning the hearts of strawberry tea drinkers everywhere, this herbal infusion is the perfect balance between earthiness and berry fun. A beautiful, clean drinking experience!

Ingredients: Apple bits, haricot bean peels, stinging nettle leaves, blackberry leaves, black current leaves, nana mint, natural flavours, and strawberry bits.

Michael, “Amazing!! The first all natural strawberry tea that absolutely delivers the berry goodness.”

Tea Spot’s Iced Ginger Peach Tea

Description: Our rendition of America’s favorite flavored black tea is an elegant and authentic twist on the conventional. We handcraft this tea on a premium blend of two full leaf black teas, which provide the perfect balance to the real organic ginger root. Absolutely fabulous served over ice!

Ingredients: Black tea, organic ginger root, and peach flavoring.

Zeta, “The ginger is fresh and alive, dancing on my tongue.”

Silver Service’s Quince Green

Description: This is one of our top rated iced green teas. A whole leaf sencha green tea that’s decorated with cornflower and mallow flower, and is flavored with quince fruit. Wonderfully refreshing!

Ingredients: Sencha, cornflowers, mallow flower and quince fruit.

Zeta, “That was one of the best iced teas I have ever had.”

June’s Tea Box

This month’s box is dedicated to the dads. Mount Kenya Estate, our black tea from Justea, is an exquisite, creamy and rich single-estate, artisanal black tea grown and harvested by Kenyan farmers (and dads)! We were surprised to find that it also tastes incredible iced! This month’s green is Morning Spirit, a sencha blend from Tea Desire with rose and sunflower blossoms. This is only the second sencha blend we have approved this year, and we have tried many! It’s a clean, flavourful cup that has earned its place in our Father’s Day box. Rishi’s Ginger Lime Rooibos is flavourful, fun and packed with all kinds of nutritious ingredients. Dads, we are looking out for your health too! Drink this tea hot or iced to reap the benefits. Finally, another tea from Tea Desire: Maracuja Orange! This tea will make your whole kitchen smell amazing. While we love it hot, it is absolutely delectable iced! We encourage you to drink this tea on ice while barbecuing, doing the crossword, washing your Mustang or anything else you enjoy doing on Father’s Day! Happy Father’s Day and happy iced tea sipping!

Morning Spirit

Description: A wonderful and dry green tea with a gentle mango-bergamot flavour that complements the tea great.

Ingredients: Sencha green tea, rose flower, sunflower blossoms, and natural flavour.

Jenny, “It’s a summer blossom shower dancing on the tip of your tongue.”

Mount Kenya Estate

Description: A sip of our Kenya black tea transports you to the lush, rolling green hills of Mount Kenya. This tea is fresh, malty, and smooth, but packs a serious hit of flavor. Sweet and complex on its own but equally superb with a splash of milk and honey to start the day off right!

Ingredients: Mount Kenyan Black Tea.

Michael, “Bright, tart and rich. A perfect Kenyan black.”

Organic Ginger Lime Rooibos

Description: The dry and pleasantly flavored West Indian Lime variety gives our Organic Ginger Lime Rooibos a unique and zesty citrus flavor with notes of ginger and rare spices. The brilliant turmeric yellow and orange infusion glows in the cup and has wonderfully refreshing notes of tropical fruits and spices.

Ingredients: Organic Fair Trade Certified™ green rooibos, Organic ginger, Organic lemongrass, Organic lemon myrtle, Organic licorice root and natural essential oils of lime and tangerine.

Jane, “Smells excellent – the ginger notes balance well against the citrus aromas and the suggestions of the liquorice – wonderful, heady, and seductive.”

Maracuja Orange

Description: An alive taste of exotic passion fruit and tangy orange. Incredible served hot, but unbelievable served cold!

Ingredients: Apple pieces, pumpkin, carrot, raisins, orange pieces, beetroot, orange peel, and natural aroma.

Michael, “The perfect citrus iced tea. An outstanding 10/10!”

May’s Teas Have Been Delivered, Enjoy!

From tea growers to blenders to world-leading sommeliers, our community includes people at every step of the process. We taste dozens of teas each month, with no affiliation to blenders, and chose the blends that inspire us most to share with you. We do this by having our team of tea connoisseurs and sommeliers sample and score the teas for look, region, aroma and of course, taste. We take pride in delivering a variety of world-class blends to your door every month – we feel we deserve it, and so do you!

Now taking orders on June’s teas shipping on the 17th.

Happy Mother’s Day month! As you may have already heard, we are proud new parents of a one-month old baby girl, so Mother’s Day this month was a pretty special event in our home. As a special treat for this month’s box, we’re featuring some teas that have gotten a lot of love over the past few years from our members for what will decidedly be their last time in a Tea Box. The Tea Spot’s Coconut Cabana (formerly known as Coconut Milky Oolong) is a blend of milk oolongs and shaved coconut – that’s all! It is a staple in our home and the tea that always sells out first at our shows. Trust us on this one. Our featured black is Rishi’s Lavender Earl Grey. Rishi prides themselves on the quality of their ingredients which are purely fair trade, organic and this tea beat out over 50 other earl greys we have sampled over the years. Only you know how you like your earl grey (and we’re hoping you do, or are at least willing to try!), but we love it with milk and honey. For this month’s herbal, Sonnentor’s Spring Kiss is a beautiful peppermint blend with all sorts of yummy ingredients and is incredible iced for this last month of spring. It’s also one of our all-time favourite herbals and always sells out at our events. Tiesta’s Red Rose Rooibos is fruity, floral and uniquely delicious. It’s a sort of tribute to our daughter Ettarose, so you best be liking it, or you’ll have one offended little baby at your door. Happy spring, happy Mother’s day, happy sunny iced tea days.

Enjoy!