Tea Basics

Whole Leaf Tea

Tasting tea steeped from whole leaf tea leaves is the closest most tea drinkers will come to experiencing tea the way it's sipped when plucked direct from the gardens. When drinking whole leaf tea, you'll notice a fuller, more complex flavor with a top note, middle note and finish - the kind of complexity you won't get from the "dust tea" that most tea drinkers are accustomed to.

Take a minute and spill out the tea of both an average tea bag and of two leaves and a bud's sachets (pull apart at the seam), and you will be able to see a huge difference in leaf size, cut, smell and color. Typical tea bags have to contain finely chopped "dust tea" (usually of lesser quality and grade) in order to steep through the paper bags. Whole leaf teas like our Jasmine Petal, meanwhile, can be enjoyed in loose leaf form, or in one of our pyramid tea sachets.

Unlike dust tea, whole-leaf teas need to steep for longer as there is not as much surface area for the water to have contact with. With each of our teas, two leaves and a bud provides recommended steep times and brewing temperatures so that tea drinkers can experience whole leaf tea that way it's enjoyed in gardens across the world.

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