Selected Teas for the New Year We are midway between New Year celebrations with the first few weeks of 2017 already behind us and the Lunar New Year coming up at the end of the month to welcome the Year of the Rooster. The winter months in the north of Vietnam mean that no teas will be produced for a few months but there is still an excellent range to choose from until the Spring harvests start to arrive.



This month we are featuring 3 teas with a seasonal 15% online discount: Lotus Tea, Purple Rain Green Tea and Two Sisters Oolong Tea. To claim the 15% discount enter the code: ROOSTER17 during checkout. Offer available until 10 February 2017. You must be logged in to enjoy discount.



Lotus Tea is a rare luxury and a particular indulgence in Vietnam during the Lunar New Year (or Tet) holiday as the lotus is revered in Vietnamese culture. We ship one of our selected organically produced wild green teas to Hanoi West Lake where the tea is blended with fragrant anthers separated by hand from lotus flowers. Blending is repeated up to 7 times over a two week period with between 1000 and 1200 flowers required to scent each kilogram of tea.



Purple Rain Green Tea is no ordinary green tea with its own bold and distinctive flavours of mushrooms and asparagus. The tea is harvested and produced, using traditional methods, entirely by a minority family in the mountains of Lao Cai province. The unique feature of this tea is that it is harvested from ancient wild tea trees that regularly produce purple rather than green leaves.



Two Sisters Oolong Tea is a Gui Fei style oolong produced by a small farm on the Moc Chau plateau in Son La province. It is a lightly oxidised oolong where the farmer has allowed small leafhopper insects to attack the leaves as they grew prompting the release of intriguing flavour volatiles. The resulting tea has delightful notes of grapefruit, plum and honey.



There are many more full of character, clean and affordable Vietnam teas to choose from. Visit our website to see the full range.