Ambrosia

Just like the mixed salad with so many different types of fruit, our black tea based ambrosia contains rose hips, orange peel, marigold petals (an edible flower) and the essences of black currant and apricot. There is no way to describe how wonderful it smells. Ask for a sniff.

A medium strength tea, flavored with the sweet essence of apricot. Apricot Arabesque is a black tea garnished with marigold petals.

A strong tea. Assam is referred to as a 'malty' flavored tea to be enjoyed straight or with milk.

This medium strength tea is flavored with blackberries and black currants. It is very popular here throughout the year.

When folks ask us to serve "plain ol' tea"; we give them the BOP. Did you know that the Orange in Orange Pekoe stands for the Dutch House Of Orange (the owners of the shipping company that brought the tea to Europe) and not the tropical fruit? This tea is the basis of most scented or flavored teas.

'The Burgundy of Tea', known for natural sweetness. Keemuns are lower in caffeine that other black teas.

A deeply enhanced black tea with diced, dried orange peel mixed throughout. Cinnamon Orange tastes sweet, but has no sugar added. Our minds rule our tongues and tell us that cinnamon must taste sweet. It's amazing.

Earl Grey is a Chinese Black tea scented with the oil of the citrus fruit, Bergamot. A great traditional cup of tea. Also available decaffeinated.

A blend of Ceylon and Assam black teas that make a great way to start your day.

Stronger than English Breakfast, a blend of Assa, Nilgiri, and Chinese Black, easily takes a splash of milk.

A Chinese black tea imbued with the flavor of sweet strawberries.

The tea everyone at the teashop talks about. Lapsang has quite a history! It is a result of the ancient tradition and necessity of smoking the tea (damp with camel sweat) over the campfire. Nowadays it is flavored by drying in pinewood smoke. It's deeply aromatic scent and strong taste stand up to milk and sugar.

If you usually drink a vanilla latte, try the change to tea with this flavorful variety. Pieces of vanilla bean are blended right into the black tea leaves. Madagascar vanilla is the most flavorful variety.

A subtle blend of Lapsang Souchong and Chinese Black tea. It is about half as smoky as Lapsang. Call it the starter kit.

No monkeys were harmed in the making of the Snow Monkey Plum! If you have ever visited Japan in the early spring you may have noticed that the plum tree is the first to bloom. Even when there is still snow on the ground. This tea has a sharp, exciting scent and brews up sweet and medium dark.

This tart smelling raspberry tea has pieces of raspberry leaf mixed into the tea leaves.

Just as pretty to look at as it is to taste, this black tea is decorated with marigold, rose and bachelor button petals. It is scented with mango, passion fruit and kiwi and lime.

We first offered Cranberry Crème as a temporary winter holiday flavor. It has since been so often requested that we make it available all the time.

The traditional Bergamot scented tea with 95% less caffiene.

It was hard to find, but, constant requests for the great flavor keep it selling.

If ever a tea tasted like it deserves to have a little paper umbrella in it, this is the one. A familiar yet exotic scented black tea.

Many of our customers have asked for this just because they smelled someone else enjoying a pot of it. Imagine Earl Grey with a dash of sweet raspberry scent.

Why shouldn't there be a third choice in breakfast blends. This one is pleasantly neutral tasting, no bite of acidity.

The best teas of Yorkshire are blended each year to create Yorkshire Gold. Many of our regulars buy it a pound at a time.

Oolong tea is fermented to the midpoint of the process a black tea requires. Thus, they have qualities of both green and black teas. Oolongs are often referred to as having a fruity aroma. They taste best when prepared carefully with water taken off the boil and steeped 4-7 minutes.

Sometimes called Long Jing, it is easy to see this tea contains long individual leaves. It makes a clear jade colored liquor and tastes slightly grassy. A good tea with which to start developing a regimen of healthy eating and drinking.

Tightly rolled pellets are said to groan when they open in the steamy heat of your teapot. A strong green tea.

Blended with green tea, most of us are familiar with this scented tea from our favorite Asian restaurant. It is appealing to several senses; taste, smell, touch. It is delicious hot or iced. It has even been recommended highly for creating a scented bath.

Remember how much you liked wild cherry candy as a kid? This tea will take you back.

The everyday tea that smells like breakfast. Genmaicha contains roasted rice (and some of it pops!).

Once you have had bulk chamomile, the tea bag you used to steep won't taste as good ever again. Chamomile is made from the flowers of the chamomile plants. Read the label at the grocery store. That's what the commercial tea is made from, too.

Everything in this tea gives you Vitamin C. Lemon Grass, Rosehips, Orange peel, Peppermint, and Hibiscus Petals. It turns the color of Chablis. Our customers occasionally add honey to it, if they have a sore throat.

Be careful, a little ginseng in your tea can energize your whole day. It doesn't add a lot of its own taste to a beverage. We are most often asked to add it to a customer's favorite tea.

Yet another edible flower. We are familiar with the lovely scent from toiletries. It creates a beautiful iridescent green liquor that looks refreshing over ice. It is a relaxing drink.

This blend is not going to remind you of black licorice whips. The licorice component is made from the diced roots of the licorice plant and the mint component is half peppermint leaves and half spearmint leaves.

Settling to mind and tummy, peppermint just makes you feel good. It contains dried peppermint leaves.

That's just it. Raspberry Leaves dried and broken.

A soothing brew to enjoy right before bed.

The new red tea! Also referred to as Honey Bush. It needs no sweetening and has minerals galore.

Mentioned in the writings of Socrates and still found growing right here in Kitsap County, St. John's Wort is a soother, especially when taken hot.

A South American communal drink, it contains a relative of caffeine called matteine. It gives you a different kind of energy.

An immune system booster, echinacea powder can be added to any beverage to avoid the blahs. We are most often asked to put it in fruit blend.