Chinese Loose Leaf Tea

Loose leaf Chinese tea is the beginning of tea's story. Millenia ago, the Chinese began crafting the indigenous mountain tea plant, Camellia sinensis, into a delicious drink. Thousands of years have been invested in perfecting the art of Chinese tea. Read more...

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We have travelled across China over the last 20 years to select what we believe is the finest pure China leaf tea. Not just green tea, oolong tea and pu-erh tea but also the most sublime white tea and black tea.

To this day in China, as it was until the 1970s in the UK, loose leaf tea is much more common than teabags. The best Chinese tea is made from whole leaves and buds that need room to unfurl and expand as they infuse. Chinese leaf tea deserves a little love and care in a teapot. You will be well rewarded with the taste.