Best Tea and Honey 
Pink Tea as White Zinfandel?
When we enjoy a white zinfandel wine, we are melding the sweetness of white wine with the robust fruit of the red, and the same might be said for the flavors brought together in this delicate white tea. Pink Sonoma Tea (available here at a real bargain price!) is a blend of a white tea and a light-bodied cabernet wine. Several floral notes are added to this mix through rose petals and jasmine leaves. Yet have no fear – white tea has a strong, earthy flavor that stands up well to the added ingredients, and provides this brew with a healthy base. Our host, Red Leaf Tea, is proud to be one of the only sources you’ll find for this delicate blend of premium white tea!
Learn by Tasting!
Three oolongs will allow you to learn the flavor well!
In the world of tea, oolong is the middle leaf. It is processed, as we noted a few weeks ago, to be halfway between lightly oxidized green tea and completely oxidized black tea. This gives a good oolong a flavor that can be hard to nail down in words. There is some astringency, yet also a bit of a floral note. We think every tea lover will enjoy the crash course in oolong flavor offered by this beautiful gift package from our host, Red Leaf Tea. Including a standard oolong from Southern China, a Yunan regional specialty oolong called Sechang, and another loose-leaf wonderfully flavored with passionfruit, this Oolong Gift Pack will offer a great round of tea tasting and savoring to everyone!
The Flavor of Nature
Organic honey taste better!
Organic foods have a tough job. They have to go up against all those perfectly displayed, chemically preserved, and attractively packaged commercial products every day! Yet because they are not sprayed with chemicals designed to keep them frozen in time, they have blemishes and other flaws that don’t look as good. The secret value of organic foods is in the flavor. An organically grown potato – or more to the point, a fine organic honey from American Bee Organic Honey – will taste stronger, deeper and better than any product that has been processed by heavy machinery and sprayed with pesticides and preservatives! Our host, Red Leaf Tea, is proud to offer several organic products, and we urge you to check out this honey to begin with!
The Sacred Mountains of Tea!
In Ancient China, the greatest tea of all was called Pu Erh. It is still made today, as a a deluxe, gourmet tea in the form of cakes that gains value and flavor as it ages, like fine wines. At Red Leaf Tea, you can find a few pu erhs for sale at great prices, like the wonderful Xaio Tuo Cha pictured here. The Chinese tea connoisseurs of yore declared that true Pu Erh had to be harvested strictly from the broad-leafed variety of the tea tree, and that these leaves had to be extremely young pekoes, oir buds with two leaves attached. Furthermore, the true pu erh leaves came only from the Six Tea Mountains of Yunan Province, called Bada, Nannuo, Youle, Menghai, Mengsong and Jinghai! Today, that definition has widened to include any hand-processed leaves, harvested early in their growth, from wild trees growing in the forests of Yunan.
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Bunnies for Kids, Tea for Grownups!
A variety of premium teas are part of this gift package, found only at Red Leaf Teas
Now that spring is here, it’s time to start planning for the Easter holiday, and we would like to urge you to make gifts of tea a part of the festivities! Now, we would never dream of replacing chocolate bunnies with teabags – it wouldn’t be fair! And scientific surveys have shown a little dark chocolate to be good for you, anyhow. We do think that while the kids are biting the heads off of chocolate bunnies, the grownups can relax with a refreshing and mellow cup of tea! White tea, with its mellow flavor and high caffeine, would make a great morning brew for Easter. We urge you to try one of the gift baskets available here! We think that a gift of tea would be a great way to celebrate the holiday, and we hope you think of Red Leaf Tea for the best in exotic gift teas.
A fine compromise! Oolong Tea
Oolong often has a blueish touch in its color!
We find that sometimes we need a break from the simple choice of green or black tea, and that’s when we like to have an oolong. Oolong is usually light in color and body, and it can be counted on to refresh and clear the head. It is processed in an exactly middle form, oxidized in open air for a time much longer than green tea, and much less than black tea. As such, it inherits a little of both worlds. Oolong will not wake you as much as green tea will, and it is not nearly as rosy in flavor as black tea. There is something light and indefinable to the flavor and body of an oolong that is not found elsewhere! You can get several oolongs here at the online store of Red Leaf Tea, our host. Highly recommended for a spring morning or evening!
The Greatest Tea of All: Pu Erh
Pu Erh tea is without a doubt the finest of all teas based on the Camillia Sinsensis tea tree. It is made only from the leaves of a subspecies of Camillia that has larger leaves than the more common strain, and only in China’s Yunan province. Pu erh tea is made in the same way as green tea, up until the final steps of the process. At first, it is allowed to oxidize very briefly in the air, which the tea industry call the fermentation. The tea is then quickly heated. Green tea receives no further treatment, but pu erh tea has just begun its long journey. It is usually pressed into bricks or pellets and allowed to undergo a second oxidation through aging. Oxidization is called fermentation in the tea business, and pu erh is thusly a post-fermented tea. The “post-fermentation” allows the lightly treated leaves to develop a unique earthiness in the flavor, while the usual astringency of tea slowly fades away. Our host website offers several Pu Erh teas on this page, Red Leaf’s Pu Erh Section, and we hope you enjoy a taste soon!
An Exotic, Colorful Blend
The vivid colors of the Blue Moon are rarely seen!
At our regular website and online store, Red Leaf Tea, we’re proud of our ability to find odd or unusual teas that you don’t often find anywhere else. We think we hit the jackpot with this lovely blend that we call “Blue Moon.” A festival of bright colors and flavors melded with a fine black tea compose this beauty. The mixture of safflower, blue mallow blossom and marigold also adds a superb floral bouquet to the aroma of the tea, not to mention sweetening it enough for to stand out with a strong breakfast. The basic black tea flavor of the blend is not lost in all the flowers, though, and this tea is a great way to wake up in the morning. Find Blue Moon Tea at this link, http://www.redleaftea.com/black-tea/blue-moon.html, and try some soon!