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Chocolate Tea Loose Leaf Black Tea

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A sumptuous blend of chocolate and rich black tea.

A golden black tea from Nepal with pure cacao nibs from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Both sustainably and organically farmed by smallholder farmers, supporting both the people in their communities and natural ecosystems.

Tasting Notes

This tea has two distinct profiles - enjoyed with and without milk. Infused at a lower temperature and served without milk - enjoy warm comforting notes of chocolate digestive biscuits (or chocolate chip cookies for our American customers) - with a wonderful hit of morello cherry and raspberry. Infused in boiling water and served with milk - the fruit notes are more subtle - replaced with a warm aroma of freshly baked bread, dark honey and rich notes of hazelnut spread.

Origin

Ilam, Nepal
Virunga Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cost Per Cup

€0,54 per cup based on 3g of tea per 150ml of water and 2 infusions.
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Recommended Infusion Guide

  • Quantity

    Use 3g of tea per 150ml of water.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum infusion (without milk) use 85°C water. If you prefer milk, use 100°C water.

  • Time

    Infuse for 1-2 minutes, tasting regularly.

  • Infusions

    You can infuse this tea at least twice.

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More infusion tips

How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

This incredible black tea comes from a group of smallholder farmers in the Himalayan foothills of Ilam, Nepal.

Tinjure Tea Cooperative grows tea under organic principles, harvesting and expertly crafting tea with the most exquisite flavour, unique to this mountain terroir.

Pictured: Shibsa Kumari Shrestha

Most smallholder farmers are often reliant on selling their fresh leaf to tea factories, who process the tea and take the lion's share of the value.

At Tinjure, both the tea production house and land are owned by the farmers. By crafting their own leaf, they create unique tea of high value with true provenance and traceability. Tinjure farmers also retain the true value.

Pictured: Madhu Maya

Virunga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

At the edge of Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park, grows one of the world’s rarest and most flavourful cocoas: the original Amelonado variety.

Cultivated by smallholder farmers, this cacao is grown using regenerative agroforestry practices that support both people and nature.

Pictured L-R: Kavugho Vakalania Jorgette, Sindani Komanda Damien, Masika Pascaline & Kavugho Kyangavo Aldegonde

Every product made with Original Beans Virunga couverture helps protect this exceptional cacao and the forest it calls home.

Through the One4One Trees programme, more than 1.5 million trees have been grown and protected since 2016, strengthening farmers’ livelihoods and creating vital habitat for Virunga’s mountain gorillas.

Organic agroforestry makes our Virunga chocolate regenerative by design, without relying on additional carbon offsets or certificates.

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Returns

The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.

In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any product you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*

In most instances, we will give you a full refund of the item's cost, excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us.** Customers in the UK & European Union have statutory rights not affected by this guarantee, but any bags of tea must remained sealed for this to be in effect.  Teaware and other non-tea physical products purchased by customers in the EU also carry a statutory 2-year legal guarantee of conformity - see the EU Legal Guarantee Notice below, and on the relevant product pages.

*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within 30 days of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.

**We will endeavour to ask for pictures instead of returning the item where possible - but if you have changed your mind and are outside of any statutory rights time period, return postage is payable by you.

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