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When the days are starting to warm up, there is no better way to enjoy the wonderful flavours of your favourite tea or tisane than with a delicious iced tea. Cool and refreshing, yet still packed with lovely, delicate flavours, iced teas make the perfect treat on those sunny days. While you can opt for using tea bags when making an iced tea, we definitely recommend going for loose leaf tea instead – the full flavours and delightful aromas of a fresh tea leaf will truly be on display in your iced tea, and at Tea-Direct, we offer a fantastic...

With a tea subscription plan from Tea-Direct, you can enjoy regular deliveries of your favourite loose leaf tea varieties on a personalised schedule, while saving 15% on each tea item, for every order. A subscription plan is a great way to take the hassle out of buying tea, and to avoid the prospect of running out before your first cup of the day! You can amend your subscription at any time and change the recurrence of your regular, automatically processed order, or change the tea variety, bag size and quantity. No matter how often you choose to receive your tea,...

Earl Grey tea, with its distinctive bergamot flavour, is one of the most popular tea blends in the world, enjoyed for its delicious fruity and citrus taste and unique aromas. Traditionally made as a blend of Chinese black tea, Earl Grey tea gets its wonderful flavour and aroma from the addition of oil of bergamot, extracted from the rinds of bergamot oranges. This citrus fruit, a cross between a lemon, lime and a bitter orange, is grown commercially in Calabria, Italy. Although its taste is quite acidic, it complements the full-bodied flavour of black tea perfectly, as well as green,...

With our Tea-Direct Black Tea gift pack, your favourite tea-lover can explore a wonderful range of our favourite black teas, sampling some of the finest flavours available from the world’s most celebrated tea-growing regions.This carefully chosen selection includes rich Assam and breakfast teas, aromatic Earl Grey and delicate, fruity Darjeeling, bold blends, floral Keemun and wonderfully fragrant Nilgiri, for a truly diverse experience. Black Tea Gift Pack - £39.99This selection pack includes nine 125g packs of loose leaf tea, beautifully presented in a black presentation box, or a luxury wicker hamper. Earl GreyOffering up wonderful, fresh flavours of bergamot, Earl...

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...