Around the World in 8 Teas Selection Box

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Curious Tea Around the World in 8 Teas Selection Box contains eight small pouches of 10g each of teas from eight different countries around the world. This tea selection gift box is perfect for tasting teas from different countries and exploring the world of tea. We carefully handpicked these to showcase each country’s production and to highlight how cultivation, terroir and processing play their roles in turning the camellia sinensis plant into so many teas with such contrasting tastes.

We recommend purchasing this tea selection box in gift packaging. This consists of an embossed gift box lined with mulberry paper that makes for a fantastic tea gift. This is the perfect way to present this unique tea gift to any tea lover.

This Around the World in 8 Teas Selection Box contains the following teas:

Bai Ya White Bud is an unusual white tea from Yongde County of Yunnan Province. Consisting solely of buds, it is processed similarly to a sheng pu-erh. The resulting liquor is smooth and flavoursome with sweet, creamy and dry grass notes and a chalky, woody aftertaste.

Makinohara Kukicha green tea from Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan is made from a mixture of sencha leaves and stalks, resulting in a sweeter character. It produces a green liquor with a grassy aroma. The verdant sweet profile has satisfying toasted notes and a slightly savoury aftertaste. Winner of a 1* Great Taste Award in 2019.

Sítio Shimada Chá Verde da Vovó, or ‘Grandmother’s tea’, is a smooth green tea from the Shimada family tea garden in Brazil. Large assamica leaves produce a vegetal liquor with a smooth and savoury profile. The flavours are verdant with notes of smoke and seaweed.

Khao Hom Fragrant Rice Oolong is a light yet flavoursome oolong made from a Jin Xuan cultivar grown in northern Thailand. It is scented with a local plant called Nuo Mi Xiang Nen Ye that is known for its taste and aroma that is akin to rice and vanilla. The light green liquor has a sweet and creamy vanilla flavour with a fragrant rice aroma. Winner of a 3* Great Taste Award in 2017.

Shan Lin Xi Gui Fei Oolong is a wonderfully expressive beauty oolong from Shan Lin Xi, grown at 1,100m. Made from ‘bug bitten’ leaves of the Qing Xin cultivar plants, it produces a balanced, clean liquor. The smooth taste has sweet notes of wild flower honey and a mineral aftertaste.

Darjeeling Rohini Spicy Black is a rare Second Flush black tea from Rohini Tea Estate, crafted from wild tea plant clones of unknown origin. It has a dark liquor with a spicy profile. The smooth taste has mineral and savoury notes of black pepper and capsicum with a drying finish.

Bitaco Colombian Leafy Black is an intriguing black tea from a relatively unknown tea growing region: Colombia. Neat leaves produce a medium strength amber liquor with a lightly malty aroma. The smooth character is sweet yet a little savoury with malty, stony and fruity notes.

Ceylon NV Silver Tips is a classic high grade Silver Tips black tea from New Vithanakande tea estate in Sri Lanka. Neat black and silver leaves produce a dark amber liquor. It has a smooth deep character with stony and malty notes of fruits and molasses. Winner of a 2* Great Taste Award in 2022.