Mystery Box, Giveaway 7

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All good things must come to an end. Today is the last day of our daily draws (and the last day of the sale).

Today we are giving away two large mystery box. These contain at least £80 worth of tea.

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You can enter each days draw by commenting on that days blog post, by +1 or commenting on our Google Plus posts. Re-tweeting or replying to our Twitter posts, by emailing me or by placing an order. At the beginning of the next day we will put all the names in a hat draw a winner and announce the next give away. Today’s post will be drawn on Monday.

Yuletide Owl Mug, Giveaway 6

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Today we have two of these lovely Yuletide Owl mugs to giveaway to two lucky winners.

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You can enter each days draw by commenting on that days blog post, by +1 or commenting on our Google Plus posts. Re-tweeting or replying to our Twitter posts, by emailing me or by placing an order. At the beginning of the next day we will put all the names in a hat draw a winner and announce the next give away. Today’s post will be drawn on Monday.

Gong Fu Tasting Set, Giveaway 5

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Today we are giving away from of our Gong Fu tasting sets.

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You can enter each days draw by commenting on that days blog post, by +1 or commenting on our Google Plus posts. Re-tweeting or replying to our Twitter posts, by emailing me or by placing an order. At the beginning of the next day we will put all the names in a hat draw a winner and announce the next give away. Today’s post will be drawn on Monday.

Tea Tours, Giveaway 4

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Today we have our new tea tour sample collections to giveaway.

One Tour of China, one tour of India, one tour of Africa, one tour of Ceylon, one tour of Georgia.

You can enter each days draw by commenting on that days blog post, by +1 or commenting on our Google Plus posts. Re-tweeting or replying to our Twitter posts, by emailing me or by placing an order. At the beginning of the next day we will put all the names in a hat draw a winner and announce the next give away.

Yesterdays winner of the lovely teapot is: Fimb on twitter.

Giveaway Day Three

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Today we are giving away this cast iron tea pot. Which is lovely, I have been gazing longingly at it all week.

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You can enter each days draw by commenting on that days blog post, by +1 or commenting on our Google Plus posts. Re-tweeting or replying to our Twitter posts, by emailing me or by placing an order. At the beginning of the next day we will put all the names in a hat draw a winner and announce the next give away.

Yesterdays names out of the hat are:

Mary Belmore; Tipsy Tea collection
Andie; Unusual Tea
Katy Garden; Adventures in South Africa
Kay Thow; Mate collection

Giveaway Day Two

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Today we have some of our new gift sets to give away.

One Tipsy Afternoon gift Set
One Adventures in South Africa
One Mate Collection
and an Unusual Teas gift set

You can enter each days draw by commenting on that days blog post, by +1 or commenting on our Google Plus posts. Re-tweeting or replying to our Twitter posts, by emailing me or by placing an order. At the beginning of the next day we will put all the names in a hat draw a winner and announce the next give away.

Yesterdays names out of the hat are Matt Phillips and Luke Pennington.

Birthday Week Sale and Giveaway Day One!

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December marks the anniversary of the start of More Tea. Which regular customers will know also means our sale week. As today is the 1st of December and a Monday this year the sale runs from the 1st to midnight on the 7th of December

It is our 12th birthday this week! It doesn’t feel like I have been doing this for 12 years but apparently I have (my first child was born just after we launched and she is 12 this year too)

This year you can save 10% on orders over £15, 15% on orders over £25 and 25% on all orders over £50.

Again we will be having a daily draw. You can enter each days draw by commenting on that days blog post, by +1 or commenting on our Google Plus posts. Re-tweeting or replying to our Twitter posts, by emailing me or by placing an order. At the beginning of the next day we will put all the names in a hat draw a winner and announce the next give away.

If you are thinking about giving the gift of tea or don’t have enough of your favourite teas to make it through to next year, our last posting dates and Festive shut down information can be found here

Now on to today’s giveaway.

We have two mini tea chests of Darjeeling tea (I’m not sure how much tea is in them and they are sealed, but would guess around 200g) from the Sungma tea estate. One 1st flush clonal and one 2nd flush clonal. If you have a preference for the one you would have if you won please specify in the comments.

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Tasting Lumbini Teas

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Today we started tasting the tea samples I brought back from World Tea Expo 2014.

They are from the Lumbini Estate in Sri Lanka. It is a beautiful looking factory nestled in woodlands (the Sinharaja forest reserve).

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Teas left to right.

Silver tips
Golden tips
Mother earth OP1
Endless sky FBOP
Jayachakra
Burning Sun FBOPF

I’ve not tasted a good Ceylon Silver Tips for a few years now. So this was a real treat.

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The Golden Tips were also good (the Roving Teaman preferred them over the Silver)

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Mother Earth and Endless Sky were both excellent brews as well. Full of bright colours, crisp floral notes, and generally a delight to taste.

The Jayachakra tea is unique to the Garden. It is two whole leaves and a bud, formed carefully into a ring. It has a lighter colour and is a gentler infusion. It is a special tea, for special occasions when you have got the time to savour the flavours and bouquet.

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Last but not least is Burning Sun. This is a pretty amazing brew. It is strong, would take milk if you wanted it, packed with flavour, yet gentle, not bitter, has great mouth feel. It has to be one of the best Ceylon’s we have tasted.

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I can’t yet say that these teas are coming soon, though I do hope I can in the near future. You are going to love them.

Tea Tasting

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Several boxes of tea samples where waiting for me this morning, and I found my tasting spoon. May be it is just me that gets like this, but tea tasting is just not right if I don’t have my spoon.

Today was a really good tasting day. Highlights include:

Yuan Shan Yin Zhen

An speciality from the Hunan province. Yellow Silver Needles. Which had a really interesting depth of flavours. It takes a lot of tea buds to make and is at the higher end of the tea price spectrum.

Next was a batch of oolongs

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All of which were very different colours in the cup. All of which were delicious in different ways. There was one from Nepal, one from Indonesia, China, Formosa and Thailand. All of which were delicious.

Tai Ping Hou Kui

I think this has to be one of the most visual teas I have come across. Looks amazing and tasted very interesting, with clean soft green notes, and a smokiness which smoothed the flavours together. Not an everyday green tea, but certainly would make a great end to a meal or be an afternoon highlight.

Last but not least was this tea,

Wild Tea Buds

Yunnan Wild Tea buds. These are harvested from wild tea trees. It does not look very interesting in the cup, the liqour is just a few shade away from looking like water. However it is packed with flavour yet light and clean and having just had a second cup cold would bf fabulous in the summer chilled. This is definitely one of my new favourite teas.

Now I just need to work out how I am going to get all these lovely new teas in the building!