{"id":7096,"date":"2018-01-16T22:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2020-08-01T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:37:27","slug":"january2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/january2018\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2018 – Gourmet Loose Leaf Tea Subscription | Curious Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the January 2018 edition of the Curious Tea subscription<\/a>! As usual we have four exciting new teas to share with our subscribers this month. This month all of our teas are united by one theme – they are purple teas! If you are unfamiliar with purple tea, the difference from the usual tea plant is that these tea cultivars have reddish purple leaves, which is the result of natural reaction of the plant to harsh growing conditions or human selection. Purple tea cultivars have a particularly high content of anti-oxidants. These include anthocyanins, polyphenols and catechins. So not only do these teas taste pretty good, they are also beneficial for health, which is a perfect aspect for those aiming at a healthy start to the New Year.<\/p>\n

The first light tea this January is a grassy and vegetal Purple green tea from Tumoi in Nandi Hills of Kenya. The second light tea is a recently developed Purple Beauty green tea from the mountains of Yunnan Province that offers a softer and creamier taste. For the darker side of the selection we opted for a wild Purple Bud Sheng Pu-erh from Yunnan; being brisk and slightly woody in flavour it presents an intriguing showcase of traditional use of purple leaf varietals in pu-erh making. And finally, we chose another type of Yunnan purple tea, a black Dian Hong Ye Sheng that produces a complex flavour with notes of sweet tobacco and sugared plums.<\/p>\n