Experience gourmet loose tea with our handcrafted, signature blends, and single-estate full leaf teas. Our selection of hand-picked, organic, & fair trade loose leaf tea supports traditional harvesting methods and offers premium flavor & health benefits. So drink up, and feel good about it!
Our collection of global tea represents all the traditional tea producing nations with their signature varieties. Over the past 4000 years, the tea plant spread to each of these nations, where it took on a unique form and flavor due to the regional terroir, namely the local soil quality, humidity, altitude, and temperature. Each region also developed specialized methods of processing the tea leaf to obtain a particular taste and form. Shaped by the traditions of their culture, local tea masters are still developing and perfecting regional tea around the world. Explore our collection!
Caffeine naturally occurs in the tea plant, causing all traditional teas to have a naturally occurring amount level of caffeine. Chemical processes can be used to extract most of the caffeine from tea leaves, however we do not carry these processed decaf teas. We do, however, have a variety of herbal teas that are naturally 100% caffeine free. On the other hand, other traditional teas are naturally highly caffeinated. These create a sustained buzz that won't result in the familiar unwanted "crash" that often follows coffee.
These pure white tea leaves from China steep into a light-yellow, smooth liquor and impart only the lightest buttery sweetness with a slight apricot fragrance. Legend has it that Buddhist monks trained monkeys to harvest the leaves from the top of wild tea trees. However, today the term Monkey-Picked refers to the highest quality tea.
Calorie-free, Fat-free, Gluten-free, Extremely low in caffeine
Tea infused from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant is the world’s most popular beverage after water. The darker the tea, the more processing it has undergone, and the more processing, the more antioxidants are lost. White teas are made from buds and young leaves, which are steamed or fired, and then dried. The closest thing to fresh tea leaves, white tea retains the highest concentrations of catechin polyphenols, which research shows may help prevent cancer, lower blood cholesterol, and control high blood pressure.
* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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Author: Adrian V Super-fresh, full leaves. I get 4-5 steepings from them. The flavor has good character too. It is sensitive to being overbrewed though..
Author: Dan Rogers One of my new favorite teas by TeaSpot! This is a beautiful white peony and similar to the base tea that TS uses in their Meditative Mind. Adjectives that apply here are soft... buttery... mildly sweet. I was able to get 4 good infusions out of the same leaf so this is a tea that you can drink all afternoon.
Author: Alexandra With a sweet honey-like flavor, this is one of the tastiest white teas i've ever tried. This tea makes me happy!
Author: Trina B. A tasty palate cleanser. It leaves my mouth feeling so fresh and so clean, with no aftertaste. yes, it's true, very soft & buttery, but at the same time cleansing. love it!
Author: Tea Spot Chef At first glance, it looks like I just placed a pile of leaves from my yard in my Steeping Cup but the hint of sweet aroma 'leaves' me believing otherwise...The liquor steeped resembles the color of honey and the taste leaves a buttery smooth feeling in my mouth...The other day, I re-steeped some of these tea leaves and made a tea-licious dinner, Coconut Curried Cod Infused with MONKEY-PICKED WHITE TEA served with Kale & Mushrooms sautéed in a sweet and spicy MONKEY-PICKED WHITE TEA-sauce...visit our blog, STEEP IT LOOSE, to check out the recipe... http://steepitloose.blogspot.com/2009/04/earth-day-why-organic-local-wild-fish.html
Author: Serena A very smooth white tea base provides a light and lovely premise for the hints of peach and even citrus. Where this tea really shines is in its amazing ability to stand up to multiple infusions. I always get three Steeping cup’s worth.
Author: Alicia I’ve tasted several White Teas, and this full leaf tea from TeaSpot is by far the freshest in flavor, with much more character than others I’ve had. The flavor of the white tea is a little difficult to describe, however it becomes more pronounced with each brewing. Be careful though, this tea turns bitter quickly if over-brewed! This is a wonderful spring and summer tea, and also brews up into a beautiful iced tea.
Author: Lisa P. Has no calories at all and is extremely light and refreshing. I am a bit partial to white tea because it is a lighter tasting tea, and I drink lots of it, mainly for the health benefits.
Author: Katie This tea is light and soothing. The fragrance is soft. It smells clean like cool, spring rain.
Author: David There is no bitterness at all to this tea. It is full of flavors but takes time and patience to taste them. It leaves you feeling fresh and rejuvenated.
Author: Lacey Super fresh, full leaves - So much so that you can brew them up to 5 times. I'd recommend only letting the leaves sit for 1 to 2 minutes for each brew, not 2 to 3 like it says in the instructions, but i like my tea really light! Does the trick and cuts my appetite really well!
Author: Mary Quinn I didn't expect such a great flavor from a white tea, but maybe it's because it's organic and so fresh. This tea is amazing! It's my new afternoon splurge... and amen to cutting the hunger pangs.
Author: Umbreona This is the best White Tea I have ever tasted. Your Snow Flakes is VERY good but this is JUST slightly better yet. It is even sweeter and has even less body. It is 100% aftertaste and that aftertaste is sweet and refreshing with a wonderfully delicate flavor.
If you have never had White Tea, drink this Tea, if you have had White Tea try this one because I bet it is better.
I would highly recommend Chilling this into wonderful Iced Tea because it is so refreshing and blows any other iced tea so far out of the water they land in the desert.
Author: Sharon DeVereaux Waiting for my order to arrive. I have been told the health benefits are more pronounced if brewed till it becomes bitter! Which I intend to do.
Author: JT Damn, I love my monkey pickin's... So smooth and creamy, drink all day off a small pile of 'em.
Author: Katie Hands down the best white tea I've ever had. White teas are always subtle, and some are on the "boring" side, at least to me. But not this one! There's a mild sweetness here that I can't get enough of
