Green Tea
 Our range of flavoursome loose leaf green tea is from China and Japan and forms part of our own private label tea range – Stir Tea. A full list with pictures is detailed at the bottom of this page. Choose from:
Blended Green Teas: Green Tea with Mint, Green Tea Apple
Hand Tied Flowering Green Teas: Double Happiness, Shooting Star, or White Angel individually wrapped in silver foil packets with full details of how to bloom the teas – perfect wedding favours or exquisite gifts.
Pure China Green Tea: Jasmine Pearl – handrolled individual pearls, Dragonwell – highly revered organically grown tea, Precious Eyebrow – popular green tea.
Pure Japanese Green Tea (organically grown) : Japanese Sencha – a classic and prized green tea , Japanese Genmaicha - green tea with lightly roasted, popped brown rice.
Read about Green Tea below:
Green tea is a very diverse and exciting category of tea. It results from the leaves of the tea plant (camellia sinensis) being steamed or fired soon after plucking. This process halts the active enzyme leaf oxidising which it would do if left exposed to the air and explains why green tea is described as unoxidised. The two countries acknowledged as leaders in the production of green tea are China and Japan. The differences in the treatment of the leaf during manufacture - in China the leaf is fired, in Japan the leaf is steamed explains why the green teas from each country produce such a markedly different cup. The Chinese style of processing produces a tea that is smooth and aromatic while the Japanese steaming process yields a more vegetal flavour cup. Both styles of tea are prized for their different characteristics.
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