“This was a real treat to try, courtesy of our friend Nichole! You’d think that such a disparate bundle of ingredients—-everything from jasmine to blackberries—would fight against one another, but...” Read full tasting note
“Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge Saturday, November 20th: National Absurdity Day Tea #1 For absurd teas, I naturally want to go for Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, but I think I have used that in...” Read full tasting note
“2021 Sipdown 111/365! Another sipdown courtesy of the great 52teas inventorying project that I don’t think I previously mentioned. I’m done, by the way… I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 250...” Read full tasting note
“Not a tea I would have chosen for myself, but I’m happy to try it as part of my mystery bag. The primary flavor is jasmine. Honestly, that’s the only flavor I taste. The tea I have in my other mug...” Read full tasting note
A Very Important Tea (VIT) for a VIP (Very Important Pair)!
When a dear friend of mine (and a very special customer from our Page of Awesomeness) wrote to me and asked me to create a tea for her proposal to her significant other, I was thrilled and tremendously honored that she would ask me to create something that would be part of such a momentous milestone in her life.
So we went into some of the overall details of her tea concept. She wanted a tea that would be representative of six continents – as she wanted to invite him to explore the world with her! What a lovely concept! Since Antarctica isn’t really a place many people visit (or grow things!) she didn’t include all seven continents.
Fortunately, because tea is such a global product, this wouldn’t be too difficult a task.
Then she got into some specific details: because Dragon Well is a favorite of both of them, she wanted it to be included in the blend. She also wanted a jasmine tea to be part of the blend.
So we had the continent of Asia represented!
For the continent of Africa, I added some green rooibos. From the continent of Europe, I added some green tea from Portugal and from the continent of Oceania, I added some green tea from New Zealand.
For the American continents, we have our additions: the continent of North America is represented by big, juicy blackberries and for the continent of South America, we have cacao nibs & shells. Finally, the chocolate chips represent both American continents: the cacao was grown in South America, but they were produced in North America.
So there we have it: this is a green tea/green rooibos blend featuring Dragon Well and Jasmine teas from China, Young Hysson from Portugal and green tea from New Zealand, green rooibos from South Africa – and this base is blended with blackberries and chocolate. This is no ordinary blend – specially crafted with love and respect for two very special people!
And of course, this blend was crafted with our basic values intact: it’s VEGAN, gluten free & allergen free!
ingredients: green teas & chocolate chips (cacao & sugar)
organic ingredients: green teas, green rooibos, blackberries, cacao nibs & shells & natural flavors
At 52teas.com, you will find unique, hand-blended artisan loose leaf teas: a new limited edition creation every week of the year. We pride ourselves on offering truly unique, one-of-a-kind tea blends that you won’t find anywhere else.