Time to Detox, Earl Grey or Darjeeling?

I love this time of year at Tea Total, our warehouse starts to fill up with tea in preparation for the busy season, which you'd think would be winter wouldn't you?  Our most exciting arrival to date is a new Darjeeling, please read on......

Darjeeling First Flush Organic Junpana
Interesting fact: more Darjeeling tea is sold around the world than is actually grown/exported from India.  So it's likely some of the Darjeeling you've previously drunk was a blend of some sort.  Our latest batch of First Flush Darjeeling, bought directly from our supplier in India, is a stunner.  It reminds me of the freshest most delicious tea we drank while staying in Darjeeling some years ago, a taste I haven't discovered since.  The flavour is light on the tongue, almost like a green tea, but distinctly Darjeeling.  For full information about this tea and the garden from whence it comes, click here.

Earl Grey Blue Star 
There are times that call for a strong Earl Grey and our Blue Star is just the thing.  Based on a good Indian black tea, sprinkled with cornflowers, hence the blue star reference and a decent strength bergamot for flavouring.  Earl Grey Blue Star is our most traditional Earl Grey.

Detox Herbal Tea  
I often read about liver cleansing diets, detox diets, juice diets and it all just seems too hard.  Other than choosing to eat well, the closest I come to detoxification is drinking this tea.  Containing dandelion flowers to assist liver and kidney function, lemon balm, fennel and peppermint as carmatives and to aid digestion,  nettle to assist high blood pressure and joint pain plus an array of flowers and leaves to assist the detoxifying process. 

Todays photos highlight the difference between tea bushes and plucking methods in Darjeeling (left) and Assam (right).  Baskets are used to protect the small, delicate Darjeeling leaves with only 7kg plucked at a time while in Assam bushes exhibit vigorous growth and pluckers carry up to 20kg in their head cloths.