Tea News Direct Exclusive Review

We’ve recently tried a few offerings from Green Tree Coffee & Tea and were pleasantly surprised by the quality of their teas. They’ve got a classic range of loose leaf teas with fine examples of many of the great tea staples from China, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Their loose teas are available in bulk or by the pound. They have an attractive range of teabags, again available in bulk or smaller quantities, and great pyramid tea sachets.

Green Tree’s Loose Leaf Tea Selection is available at Buy Tea Online and we recommend that you take a look. In particular, their Darjeeling FTGFPO1 Black Tea, one of India’s most famous teas, is a product of genuine character. The Jasmine Pearls are good value, whilst the China Magnolia Oolong Tea is a high-grade tea for a very reasonable price.

The whole Green Tree range is worthy of exploration as they offer many of the world’s famous teas - the standout Chinese green and black teas, Formosa oolong, Assam, Darjeeling and Chai teas from India, Ceylon estate teas, the list goes on. Check them out for yourselves and tell us what you think. We’d love to hear your opinions.

The Guardian UK by Mark Sweney

X-Men star signs up with drink firm

Hugh Jackman, the actor most famous as the testosterone-fuelled Wolverine in X-Men, is to show his softer side in a global advertising campaign for Lipton Ice Tea. Jackman, who also played the rugged stockman Drover opposite Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, has signed a three-year deal to front a multimillion-pound campaign, the first he has starred in outside his native Australia.

The European marketing director for Lipton Ice Tea, Francois Bazini, said that it was Jackman's singing and dancing performance as a host at last year's Academy Awards that convinced the company to sign him up. “He has a great personality liked by men and women,” said Bazini. “He is very different from many other actors. He is a true entertainer who can dance, sing and act. We will use all of his skills.”

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Seattle Times By Melissa Allison

Starbucks Melody was onto this last fall, and now a company spokesman has confirmed that in October, Starbucks began converting its Tazo tea bags to a new line-up of full-leaf teas. During the transition, some stores have run out of the old variety but not yet received the new stock. Besides coming in sachets that are better for brewing, Tazo teas are using better quality (and harder to find) whole tea leaves, spices and botanicals. Most of the blend flavors will stay the same, with a couple new ones being added in January.

Buy Tea Online comparison website

A website comparing more than 1000 varieties of loose leaf tea, teabags and teawares was relaunched last week. Buy Tea Online, which opened its doors in 2005, has been completely redesigned to make it easier for tea drinkers to find the right products, first time.

“With whole sections dedicated to green tea, white tea, oolong tea, black tea, pu-erh tea, flavored tea, herbal tea, tea gift sets and samplers, teapots, accessories and more, there’s sure to be something for everyone” said spokesman Richard Fray. “We’ve recreated the site as an online catalog, enabling our visitors better access to a much larger range of tea and tea-related products” he added.

Buy Tea Online, and its sister site, Buy Loose Tea, have become increasingly popular with tea drinkers, wholesalers and industry insiders alike. Whilst Buy Loose Tea is restricted to loose leaf teas only, Buy Tea Online covers a whole range of tea-related products. Fray explains the reason behind this:

“There’s a world of difference between the casual tea newbie wanting to try some raspberry flavored teabags and the genuine connoisseur looking for this year’s Wuyi Rock Oolongs, so both websites are designed to cater to different audiences. Buy Tea Online has a more general feel, featuring teabags, teapots, kettles and other products similar to what you’d maybe find in your local supermarket, as well as an extensive range of loose leaf teas. Buy Loose Tea only features loose leaf teas – no teabags, no accessories, no distractions, just top quality whole leaf tea.”

“And what a selection we have! Comparing products from great online retailers such as Adagio, Generation Tea, O-cha and Culinary Teas side by side with big-name brands like Celestial Seasonings, Stash and Yogi, we think Buy Tea Online is the ultimate method of selecting which teas and teawares to purchase on the internet. It couldn’t be simpler or more effective.”

Fray continued: “We plan on adding to the range over the coming months. It’ll be hard to find enough products of the required standard for us to feature, but we’re looking around and hoping to increase the number of products on the site to maybe a couple thousand.”

A website comparing more than 600 varieties of premium loose leaf tea was relaunched last week. Buy Loose Tea, which opened its doors in 2005, has been completely redesigned to make it easier for tea drinkers to find the right products, first time.

“With whole sections dedicated to green tea, white tea, oolong tea, black tea, pu-erh tea, flavored tea, herbal tea, decaf tea, tea blends and tea gift sets and samplers, there’s sure to be something for everyone” said spokesman Richard Fray. “We’ve recreated the site as an online catalog, enabling our visitors better access to a much larger range of fine loose leaf teas” he added.

Buy Loose Tea, and its sister site, Buy Tea Online, have become increasingly popular with tea drinkers, wholesalers and industry insiders alike. Whilst Buy Tea Online covers a whole range of tea-related products, Fray explains the reason behind restricting the range of Buy Loose Tea.

“There’s a world of difference between the casual tea newbie wanting to try some raspberry flavored teabags and the genuine coconnoisseur looking for this year’s Wuyi Rock Oolongs, so both websites are designed to cater to different audiences. Buy Tea Online has a more general feel, featuring teabags and other products that you’d maybe find in your local supermarket, but Buy Loose Tea only features loose leaf teas – no teabags, no accessories, no distractions, just the real deal – top quality whole leaf tea.”

“And what a selection we have! Comparing products from great online retailers such as Generation Tea, O-cha and Culinary Teas side by side, we think Buy Loose Tea is the ultimate method of selecting which loose leaf teas to buy online. It couldn’t be simpler or more effective.”

Fray continued: “We plan on adding to the range over the coming months. It’ll be hard to find enough products of the required standard for us to feature, but we’re looking around and hoping to increase the number of teas on the site to more than a thousand.”