Tea Musings

New Tasting Notes: Rooibos Blackcurrant TR31

chrissie — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:58:30 +0000

TR31. Rooibos Blackcurrant

Type: Flavoured Red Rooibos: a mix of red rooibos, blackcurrants flavour, freeze dried redcurrants, strawberries, raspberries and black cherries

For tasting, 2.8 grams of tea was steeped in 140ml water at 100⁰C in a half size tasting mug for five minutes.

Dry appearance: orange to red rooibos matrix with a liberal mix of dried berry pieces; shows a clean sharp fruity aroma

Infusion – aroma: a promising serenade of warm fruit notes

Liquor – visual: a crystal clear burnt orange liquor colour

Liquor – taste: a very well balanced choir of fruits that complement the red rooibos nicely – true harmony

Summary: perhaps this blend is misnamed as Blackcurrant? It should be called Everycurrant – each fruit in the mix plays its part, none predominates, yet any one would be missed if removed.

Product Review; Flavoured Teas Sample Pack

chrissie — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:24:22 +0000

‘I bought a Flavoured Teas Sample pack along with two tea infusers. The ordered arrived beautifully packed with 10g sealed packets of some 45 teas. I gave half of them to me son who lives 200 miles away, and daily we each brewed a new tea. Independently we made notes on each sample (inventing categies like nose, colour,initial tastes, later tastes, whether good for a second brew, etc.) and we each gave the brews a score, 0-5. Eventually we swapped our halves and went through the process with the second half of the set. We then compared notes and scores. All of this has been a great deal of fun, and we have both discovered some teas we love (not necessarily the same ones) and a few we dislike.

D of York’

Somehow it is December and we are another year older!

chrissie — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:12:34 +0000

Birthday Sale

It’s our ninth birthday! Which as many of you will know means it’s time for a store wide sale to celebrate.

The NBT Birthday Sale runs from the 2nd of December until midnight GMT on the 16th December 2011.

Spend £15 get 10% off
Spend £30 get 15% off
Spend £50 get 20% off

In addition look out for extra special offers and giveaways on our facebook and twitter pages, and coming soon a G+ plus page!

Changes to the Tea Buffs Scheme effective 1st of February 2011

chrissie — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:46:30 +0000

As we have grown it has become necessary to make some changes to the Tea Buffs scheme. We will be doing away with the quarterly discount system which is now too complex. Instead Tea Buffs will have an overall 5% discount which will show against prices when members log in to the store.

Existing members already set up on the store will remain members of the scheme. New members will have a joining fee of £10. We will continue to offer unusual teas exclusively to Tea Buff Members.

New features are:

Tea Buffs will have free download access to our tasting score sheet, and will receive samples of every new tea added to our main list free of charge. The Tea Buff section will remain on the site and access will be as before.

The Tea Buffs discounts accrued to date will be collated and final discount codes will be issued before the end of Feb 2011. This will remain valid for one year.

Just a test….

chrissie — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:38:17 +0000

To check everything is still working after the move.

Birthday Sale

chrissie — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:45:37 +0000

It is our birthday, we have now been trading for eight years! To celebrate we are having a spend and save sale.

Spend £10 and save 10% on your order.
Spend £25 and save 15% on your order.
Spend £40 and save 20% on your order.

Sale runs until midnight on Sunday 12th December 2010.

Meet Hugo..

chrissie — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:41:13 +0000

Hugo the robot teaball

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New Site

chrissie — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:36:26 +0000

As you can probably see we have a new website. Designed and built for us by the lovely people at Silverknife

We like it and we hope you do to.