Green and white
- Mere morning£9 / 80 gSencha with lemon verbena
- Silver birch£12 / 50 gWhite peony with a little birch leaf
Loose-leaf tea
Nine blends of whole leaf from three small gardens, with herbs and flowers from round the mere.
- Whole leaf, never dust
- Bought straight from the growers
- Tins you keep and refill
The blends
Each tin holds about forty cups. Refill bags are a pound or two less.
Green and white
Black
Without caffeine
Brewing a good cup
01
Fresh water
Draw it cold and boil it once. Twice-boiled water tastes flat.
02
Let it rest
Two minutes off the boil for green and white teas, none for black.
03
One spoon a cup
A heaped teaspoon, or three grams, for every cup in the pot.
04
Wait, then pour
Two minutes for green, four for black, six for herbs.
A cup worth sitting down for
We drink tea all day in the boathouse, and these nine are the ones we kept coming back to.
Every blend can be tasted at the counter before you buy it, and every tin can be refilled, so the shelf at home slowly fills with the ones you love.
Tea by post, every month
Two tins of the season's blends, posted on the first of the month. Stop or pause whenever you like.