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Black China Tea

Orders over £25 are delivered free in the UK. Orders over £80 receive 10% discount.

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Golden Needle

Golden needle originates from Yunnan Province where the young buds are picked from ancient trees...

Keemun Dahlia

Keemun is grown in Anhui Province and is a 'gongfu' tea requiring disciplined skill to produce thin tight strips...

Keemun Hoa Ya A

Hoa Ya A is largely retained for the most elevated of China's domestic consumption. This represents the finest of China's long history of making Keemuns for export...

Keemun Hoa Ya B

Keemun Hoa Ya B is rarely available outside China. So good is it that this beautifully winey tea is largely kept within China...

Keemun Mao Feng

From Anhui province, this imperial grade Keemun, picked in March and April, has a natural orchid character and depth. The beautifully long ...

Keemun Jhin Hao

This lovely, very rich tea has a full bodied liquor. Without doubt this tea lives up to the reputation of Keemuns as the 'Burgundy of Teas'...

Keemun Peony

This extra quality Keemun has a neat pine-needle leaf producing a subtly rich liquor with a toasty character and delicate aroma.

Lapsang Souchong Falcon

Lapsang Souchong - a speciality of the Wuyi mountains of Fujian Province, has a wonderfully smokey flavour...

Lapsang Souchong Osprey

A particularly characteristic Lapsang Souchong with that wonderfully smokey flavour...

Formosa Lapsang

A most unusual tea combining the earthy characterisics of Formosa's oolongs with the pinewood aromas of Fujian Lapsangs...

Yunnan Black

Akin to Assam but with a classic blacker leaf. Produced from thick buds and soft leaves to yield a lovely, robust tasting tea with a heady aroma.

Grand Yunnan FOP

A noticeably tippy, full bodied yet light, large leaf Yunnan with a certain sweetness...

Rose Congou

This traditional China tea is produced by layering freshly picked rose petals with black tea...

Lychee Congou

Sweetish and smooth this traditional combination of lychee and delicate black China tea...

August: Buy one selected tea, have 20% off another.

A little about: Black China Tea

China tea (or Chinese tea) have amongst the longest tea making history in the world. Tea has been cultivated there for over two thousand years. The word 'tea' is derived from the Chinese 'Cha' from which the Indian 'Chai' also originates. The East India Company first brought Chinese tea to England from Canton in 1684.

China Black Tea known best in the West

In China, only green teas are drunk but black teas are produced by fermentation, or oxidisation, of the withered leaves, black tea was originally developed to prolong the life of tea intended for export. It is these teas that we in the West generally know and love best. Chinese teas are low in tannin and are therefore ideal afternoon and evening teas.

There is much secrecy in the making of Chinese tea and great skill is used by the co-operatives in blending teas from several gardens to ensure consistency in quality no matter what the prevailing climatic conditions.

The Tea Provinces

Yunnan, known as the 'mocha of tea' is produced in the high plateaux of south west China. This is the only chinese tea that should be drunk with milk.

Keemun is from Anhui province, around the mountain of Huang Shan and is the most famous China black tea. It is known as the 'Burgundy of teas' and was Britain's favourite tea in the nineteenth century. This is a remote area of rocky peaks, ancient pine trees, clear mountain springs and swirling mists a 'sea of clouds' creating a humidity so special for the growing of their unique teas.

Some extremely rare and expensive chinese teas are produced in the mountainous regions of Sichuan (Szechwan) and Jiangsu.

Fujian Province is renown for its distinctive Lapsang Souchongs in which larger leaves, souchong, are smoked over pinewood fires to give an unmistakably tarry taste which many tea drinkers find becomes their favourite tea. Lapsang Souchong is a constituent of our Afternoon Blend and gives it a distinct and moreish character.

Guangdong province is well known for the production of traditional scented teas such as Jasmine, Rose Congou, Osmanthus and Lychee Congou.

Chinese black tea is always whole leaf - use one teaspoon per cup, freshly boiled water and allow about five minutes to infuse.

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