Tea for Christmas day
Tea has a diverse and interesting flavour profile – one that is as complex, if not more so, than wine. And in the same way that you can pair wine with food, you can also pair tea with food.
With our Tea for Christmas Day box, you can add a little extra sparkle to Christmas Day and enhance your Christmas meal with a tea pairing for each course. These teas are an excellent alternative or accompaniment to your wine selection.
Our Tea for Christmas Day box includes:
~ three 20-gram single-origin loose-leaf teas
~ a little note card to introduce the teas and our pairing suggestions, and
~ our tea steeping and tasting guide
You can choose to upgrade this box to include teaware:
~ 'Large for one' includes the teas plus our tea glass infuser and long-handled teaspoon
~ 'Large for two' includes the teas plus the 280ml KINTO teapot, two Kinto Kronos tea glasses and our long-handled teaspoon
The teas in our Tea for Christmas Day box are:
Glenburn Summer Darjeeling, black tea, India
Flavour: floral & fruity
This second flush, July 2024 harvest black tea comes from Glenburn Tea Estate, Darjeeling, India. High in the Himalayas, Glenburn Tea Estate is located above the Rungeet river, overlooked by the Kanchenjunga mountain range. It was started in 1859 by a Scottish tea company who then passed it on to one of India’s pioneering tea families, the Prakashes, whose hands it remains in today.
Serve Glenburn: cold-brewed in sparkling water either as an aperitif or paired with your appetisers - particularly light seafood such as scallops, prawns and oysters. *please note you will need to purchase your sparkling water separately.*
Silk Route, Black tea, Sri Lanka
Flavour: molasses, malt, warm spices ~ medium-bodied
An Orange Pekoe grade black tea from Hidden Hills tea garden in Sri Lanka. Harvested in July 2024, these leaves infuse into a brisk, bold tea with a pleasant astringency and notes of molasses, charred wood, malt and cloves. Hidden Hills is a small tea garden in the village of Thumodera, Seetawaka, Sri Lanka, run by Chula De Alwis. Its location and unique environment create the perfect conditions for growing tea naturally. The plants are fed by spring water and pest control is taken care of by local bird life. Forest borders the garden, which has views up to the lush Seetawaka mountain range and the Seetawaka wet zone botanical gardens are nearby.
Serve Silk Route: hot-steeped with your mains - the body and astringency of this tea work well with meat as well as vegetarian dishes. The food pairing works best when the tea is served without milk.
Bagua Shan Siji Chun ~ light roast, Oolong tea, Taiwan
Flavour: sweet, creamy, sugary, floral - light & silky
These leaves come from the Siji Chun Wu Long tea plant cultivar. They were harvested on 27 March 2024 in Bagua Shan, Nantou County, Taiwan. Following oxidation, compression, rolling and curing, they are gently roasted at the end of processing. The result is a light and silky-soft infusion with moreish notes of sweetened cream, caramelised sugar and flowers, The Wang Family has been involved in Taiwanese tea for many generations. The company is now run by brother and sister duo Joshua and Ivy Wang, who have a passion for sustainable and environmentally friendly practices and sharing the best tea that Taiwan has to offer.
Serve Bagua Shan oolong: hot with your dessert or cheese board.
Each tea is 20 grams (enough to serve seven people hot steeped or make 2 litres when cold-brewed in sparkling water. However, each tea can be steeped at least twice providing tea for even more).
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