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Subscribe to our Tea of the Month, and we'll send you a different, carefully selected loose tea each month, allowing you to sample a new variety with every order and experience a range of wonderful flavours. Expertly chosen to showcase our extensive range of quality teas from around the world, all of our teas are supplied as loose leaf, allowing you to sample different tastes from all corners of the globe You can set your order frequency depending on your personal requirements, and you are free to amend or cancel without penalty at any time Choose your bag size: 125g,...

We have three wonderful new teas available now at Tea-Direct: a very special, rare Ceylon Silver Needles tea, a beautiful Assam Gingia, and a lovely, sweet Goji Berry Sencha. Ceylon Silver Needle Tea – From £59.99A truly exceptional white tea, made with very high quality handpicked, single origin buds from Sri Lanka. This rare white tea creates a luxurious champagne coloured tea, with fresh, floral aromas and delicate hints of pear, pine and honey. Silver needle teas are often seen as among the highest quality tea leaves available, and are usually harvested during the First Flush period, between late March and...

What is Lapsang Souchong?Sourced from the Wuyi Mountain region in China’s Fujian Province, Lapsang Souchong is a world-renowned, luxury black tea, loved for its unique smoky flavours and aromas, its smooth mouthfeel and a very distinct aftertaste. Lapsang Souchong has been produced centuries, becoming among the most popular teas in the world. The name itself gives an indication of its character; ‘lapsang’ means ‘smoky’ while ‘souchong’ refers to the older, larger leaves that grow two or three leaves down from the bud and the smaller ‘pekoe’ leaves of the tea plant. Buy Lapsang Souchong from Tea-Direct – Available from just...

There are many quick and easy things that we can do to introduce new healthy habits into our daily routines, and one that has been practiced for perhaps thousands of years, and enjoyed around the world to this day, is the drinking of green tea. Known for its potential health benefits, green tea contains a high concentration of antioxidants, which may help to protect the body from damage caused by free radicals, as well as the amino acid L-theanine, which has been linked to improved brain function. Green tea leaves undergo an additional drying stage during production, and it is...

Our 12 Tea Gift Pack is the perfect gift for the tea-lover in your life, bringing together twelve of our favourite teas into a single beautifully presented pack and allowing your lucky recipient to sample a fantastic range of delicious loose-leaf teas. 12 Tea Gift Pack - £29.99 This stunning selection draws some of the most popular tea growing regions in the world, including Sri Lanka, China and India, and includes a range of bold black teas, delicate green teas, rooibos and Earl Grey. Each tea comes in a 30g bag, and the selection comes neatly packaged in an attractive...