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Fair trade is crucial ingredient in Numi Organic Teas
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News, Tea Product News on January 13, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 2012
A little more than a decade ago, two Iraqi American siblings were vacationing at the Grand Canyon when they decided to create a tea company that prized art and social justice. Today, Numi Organic Tea in Oakland is the leading brand importer of fair-trade certified teas in the United States.
For co-founder Ahmed Rahim, the desire to build a people-focused company came out of his experience as a child growing up in Cleveland, the son of Iraqi immigrants. For Reem Rahim, his sister and co-founder, a near-fatal car accident as a college student studying biomedical engineering led her to embrace what she really loved – art. And so it was that the two came up with the idea to start a business named after the dried lime tea they had drunk as children, Numi.
Review: Mighty Leaf Tea TeaTop Brewing Travel Mug
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Product News, Tea Reviews on December 24, 2011
Boarding Area, Dec 8, 2011
Mighty Leaf Tea is my most favorite tea, mostly because the flavors are incredible
and interesting. I’ve had them on my top ten list for years, but I never knew they did anything besides tea.
Turns out they also have a very clever travel mug specifically for tea users, which they were kind enough to send me to review. Putting tea in a normal travel mug isn’t that great—there’s no easy way to get the bag out, so the tea brews too long and ends up tasting bitter. If you do pull the bag out, there’s no easy place to put it and you end up making a mess.
The TeaTop Brew Travel Mugis the first travel mug specifically made for tea I’ve ever tried, and it is very cool.
Holiday Tea Gift Ideas Part 2
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Product News, Tea Special Offers on December 12, 2011
Tea News Direct Exclusive
Still have some last minute gifts to buy in time for the holiday season? Don’t panic – here’s our Holiday Tea Gift Ideas part two!
- Did you miss part one? Click here for more Tea Holiday Gift Ideas
We’ve spent a long time trawling the internet looking for good tea gifts. Before we make our latest suggestions, we thought we’d give a special mention to MightyLeaf Tea, whose range of tea gifts just about blew us away! They have such an extensive range that they’ve compiled a list of their Top 20 Tea Gifts. If you can’t find something there…
Adagio Tea Loose Leaf Holiday Tea Collection
Every year, just in time for the holidays, Adagio offers loose flavored black teas with a seasonal theme. Sure to instill the spirit of the season and bring a welcome warmth to the growing cold, the Adagio Holiday Tea Collection make the perfect gift for your friends and loved ones, as well as a great indulgence to savor for yourself.
But these are only available for until the end of December, so make sure that you stock your stockings full!
Price: $9.00
The Tea Farm’s Tea Gift Basket
This Hawaiian style Tea Gift Basket is presented in a custom Lauhaula Basket (10″x10″x4″) and includes a maroon glass teapot, can of 4.5oz Mauna Loa macadamia dry roasted nuts, two small 0.5oz packs of macadamis nut with Maui Onion & Garlic flavor and Ghirardelli chocolate flavor, and of course The Tea Farm’s quality best selling tea:
(2 oz) Jasmine Dragon Pearl, (2 oz) Lichee Tea, (2 oz) White Peony and (2 oz) Oolong rose tea
Price: $40.00
Tea From Taiwan’s Splendor Tea Gift Set
Looking for the perfect gift for the tea lover on your list? Look no further! Here are two of Tea From Taiwan’s best-selling teas packed in an attractive gift box.
The Splendor Tea Pack has two canisters of their most popular tea - Tsuei Luan and Shi Zuo. They are representative teas of the top two tea regions of Taiwan – Ali Shan (Mount Ali) and Li Shan (Pear Mountain).
Price: $47.50
MightyLeaf Tea’s Holiday Tea Box
The Abaca Holiday Tea Box makes the perfect eco-friendly holiday gift. Handcrafted of tree-free Abaca plant fibers and cogon grass, our sustainable Abaca Holiday Tea Box is fastened with a whittled coconut-shell button.
Each box comes filled with 30 of Mighty Leaf’s whole leaf biodegradable tea pouches that includes the following seasonally festive blends: Organic Breakfast, Bombay Chai, Marrakesh Mint, Organic Hojicha Green Tea, Rainforest Mate and Ginger Twist.
Price: $24.95
Tea Gift Certificates
It’s definitely easier when you don’t have to choose gifts! If you’ve still not found anything to inspire you, why not let your loved one decide for themselves by getting a tea gift certificate. Here are some particularly good ones…
• Adagio Teas Gift Certificate
• Silver Leaf Tea Gift Certificate
• Tea From Taiwan Gift Certificate
We hope that you’ve taken some ideas for tea gifts from either Part One or Part Two of our Holiday Tea Gift Ideas. Please have a happy and safe holiday season 
The Tea Spot Launches ‘Dessert Tea Sampler’ in Time for Holidays
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News, Tea Product News on December 7, 2011
San Fransisco Chronicle, December 2011
The Tea Spot launches the ‘Dessert Tea Sampler‘, a perfect guilt-free tea to match a holiday sweet tooth, any time of day. Perfect as a holiday tea gift, the Dessert Tea Sampler has six gourmet loose leaf teas, spanning the gamut from loose black teas to oolong tea and caffeine-free herbal teas. The Dessert Tea Sampler combines chocolate, caramel, vanilla cream, citrus and bergamot, as well as almonds, coconut and hot spices.
This zero-cal, gluten-free, dessert tea collection includes 6 mini tea tins, filled with handcrafted blends that have notes of chocolate, vanilla, caramel, cinnamon, and coconut. The loose leaf teas in the Dessert Tea Sampler are three of The Tea Spot’s signature black teas, one oolong, and two herbals: Chocolate “O”, Creme Caramel, Earl of Grey, Red Rocks, Red Hot Chai, & Coconut Oolong. All six of the teas are handcrafted in Boulder, Colorado.
Tea made from panda feces expected to be most expensive brew in the world
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News, Tea Product News on November 28, 2011
New York Daily News, by Rheanna Murray, 15 Nov 2011
The world’s most expensive cup of tea is packed with cancer-fighting elements, but it’s not without a stomach-turning catch — the tea leaves get a boost from panda feces.
Wildlife expert An Yashi is launching the special blend of green tea, which could cost up to $36,000 per pound, Australia’s SBC.com reported.
Yashi, a college lecturer at Sinchuan University, said using panda excrement to fertilize the tea plants has a health-promoting upside because it contains nutrients from one of the bear’s favorite meals — bamboo.
New Tea Comparison Website Launched
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News, Tea Product News on November 22, 2011
Tea News Direct Exclusive
A website showcasing thousands of varieties of tea and tea-related products has been relaunched. Tea Selector offers visitors a convenient way to browse the whole world of tea.
“We’re excited about this new website” said Tea Selector’s Richard Fray. “We’ve spent a long time researching thousands of products and we think we’ve put together a simple way to compare the baffling number of teas now on the market.”
Tea Selector breaks products down into categories which include Loose Leaf Tea, Teabags, Tea Samplers, Iced Tea and Bubble Tea, with many sub-categories so you can really target what you’re looking for. You can also search for famous and not-so-famous tea brand, as well as explore the worlds of tea wares and accessories, tea gift baskets, gourmet tea foods, tea books and more.
Holiday Tea Gift Ideas, Part One
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Product News, Tea Special Offers on November 14, 2011
Tea News Direct Exclusive
There can be no better gift to give than the gift of tea. There are some really great ideas for tea gifts this holiday season, and we’ve trawled through them all to bring you our recommendations. This is part one of a two part special. Here is Holiday Tea Gift Ideas part two.
Here are some tea gifts to delight any tea lover this holiday season.
Golden Moon Tea has a great range of tea gifts. Here’s our favorite:
Tea Taster’s Sampler
Someone you know will no doubt savor this treasure chest of Golden Moon Tea’s 31 best-selling premium teas. They call them Monologues – single-servings carefully packaged and labeled with their name, description, and serving instructions.
Packaged in a beautiful Pandan Leaf Sampler gift box. Perfect as a remarkable but inexpensive gift.
Price: $29.95
Teatulia’s gift box makes for a substantial and classy gift:
Tea Gift Box
A variety of Teatulia teas and herbal infusions in a beautiful, handcrafted tea chest made from reclaimed Rocky Mountain pine. Each chest contains a 2oz variety of loose leaf teas such as Black, Green, White, Earl of Bengal, Peppermint Herbal and award winning lemongrass herbal. This is a high quality tea chest filled with great tea; a really special gift
Price: $75.00
ThePuriTea has some very nice tea gifts. This is a particularly good choice:
Tea Starter Kit
They’ve included their most popular products into one affordable package. The set consists of ThePuriTea’s Personal PushTop Teapot (24oz), four sampler sets of the tea of your choice and a Double Layer Glass Cup.
It makes a for an attractive and practical holiday gift, and inexpensive, too – it’s exceptional value.
Price: $25.00
Art of Tea has a wonderful range of tea gifts, perhaps the best we found. It was hard to pick one out:
Complete Matcha Set
Ceremonial matcha 30 gram tin, matcha whisk, container, bamboo scoop and ceremonial matcha bowl, all of the highest quality. Reviews include ”You must get this set. The matcha bowl is a great piece.” and ”My friend was completely bowled over. I did the right thing to choose this gift for a tea lover. Art Of Tea has the best tea gifts. I’ll be coming back for more.”
Price: $97.00
And this is a really neat idea. Make any tea into a gift with Tea District’s clever gift packing range, eg.:
Gift Bag Tote
A unique, two-compartment jute gourmet bag with separator and bamboo cane handle. Order with your tea selections and they’ll prepare it for your gift recipient. The gift bag tote will arrive as shown in the image. If you’d like a special note to the recipient enclosed with the gift, just include this in the comments section at checkout. These bags are durable, eco-friendly, sustainable and reusable!
Price: $7.50, plus price of tea
Still don’t know what to get for that special tea gift? Make it easy on yourself! Buy the tea lover in your life a tea gift certificate from California Tea House. All you have to do is select the amount and you’re done!
Price: $ Your Choice
Hopefully this will give you some ideas for the perfect tea gift this holiday season. If it hasn’t, look out for part two of Tea News Direct’s Holiday Tea Gift Ideas…
The Tea Spot’s Holiday Spice Tea is Back by Popular Demand
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News, Tea Product News on November 14, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov 2011
Best-selling black spiced tea blend is back for the holidays at online tea retailer The Tea Spot. With customers calling months in advance to confirm its return, Tea Specialist Bo Olson prepares new batches of this unique spice tea to launch this week.
The Tea Spot’s Holiday Spice Tea is back in time for the holidays. This is a limited-edition loose tea blend of black tea with orange peel and aromatic holiday spices. The aroma is reminiscent of mulled cider and cinnamon hard candy. It will be available from The Tea Spot in a decorative tin throughout the holiday season, while this limited-time microblend remains in stock.
Honest Tea Challenges an Industry
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News, Tea Product News on November 14, 2011
The Motley Fool, By Molly McCluskey, 4 Nov 2011
When Seth Goldman, TeaEO and co-founder of Honest Tea, visited the tea garden in central China that would supply the leaves for his organic tea, he was puzzled by its remote location. Locals explained that the organic garden, located across a river with no bridge, was better served cut off from vehicles that could pollute it.
“That’s when I got it,” Goldman says. “What I saw as a problem, the lack of a bridge, was already a solution to another problem, that of pollution.”
Several years earlier, Goldman had seen another problem. An avid athlete, he found his post-workout beverage options were either sugary sports drinks and soda or watery drinks without much flavor.
Knowing that if he wanted something different he’d have to make it himself, Goldman and co-founder Barry Nalebuff brewed the first batches of Honest Tea in Goldman’s kitchen. Goldman brought the drinks to a Fresh Fields Market (now owned by Whole Foods) representative in five Thermoses and a Snapple bottle with a mocked-up label. The grocery company placed an order for 15,000 bottles on the spot.
Special Tea Offers for November
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Product News, Tea Special Offers on November 8, 2011
Tea News Direct Exclusive
We’ve been searching for special offers again, and here’s what we’ve found for November 2011…
15% off all tea at Art of Tea + a free sample of Santa’s Little Helper
David Oliver from Art of Tea has emailed with two very special offers for Tea News Direct readers. Art of Tea is one of our favorite tea vendors, with high quality teas at good prices, so we’ll be taking advantage of these special offers ourselves…
Enter Coupon Code: SANTA15
Free shipping for orders over $50 + get a $5 Art of Tea gift certificate for next time
These discounts from Art of Tea will be available for the rest of 2011, so there’s plenty of time to find the right tea and get that holiday gift for a fellow tea lover.
Enter Coupon Code: MERRY50
10% off all products plus free shipping at California Tea House
Great news! Will from California Tea House has emailed with a special Thanksgiving offer.
California Tea House is offering Tea News Direct readers 10% off all products plus free shipping, until 11/30/2011.
At checkout, just enter coupon code: THANKFUL10
25% off Kabusecha Plum Tea at American Tea Room
A 25% discount is excellent value for a tea of this quality. Kabusecha is a rare, shade-grown Japanese green tea that is typically reserved for special occasions and visitors in Japan. For Kabusecha Plum, American Tea Room have combined the sweet, oceanic taste of this rare tea with sweet plum.
Normal Price: $33.80 - Sale Price $25.35
37.5% off Premium Teabags at Generation Tea
Generation Tea produce some of the best teabags in the world. Using their exclusive loose leaf Oolong, Pu-erh and White teas, they’ve created top quality teabags. They were already at a great price of $8 for a box of 18, so an extra 37.5% off is truly outstanding value!
Normal Price: $8.00
Sale Price: $5.00
20% off Teatulia 100% Organic Green Tea Pyramid Bags
Teatulia is named for the region in Northern Bangladesh where the tea is grown. Teatulia Organic Teas reflect the pristine and delicate environment from which they hail.
This premium green tea is medium-bodied with earthy and grassy notes. A light finish with a refreshing cooling quality.
Use Promo Code: gr2011
20% off three green teas at The Tea Spot
Great offer from The Tea Spot. Buy these three great green teas and get 20% off the bundle.
- Thin Mint Green
- Meditative Mind
- Boulder Blues
We hope you take advantage of one or more of these great deals. We’ll have more for you soon…
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