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Rare Masala Chai Loose Leaf Black Tea

18 reviews
£7.49
(17p per cup)
891 in stock

A rich black loose leaf tea with freshly ground spices. Unlike a traditional Masala Chai, which often uses a low grade tea and disguises it with spices, this is a beautifully hand-crafted tea carefully enhanced with spices.

Deliciously enlivening.

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03 November 2019
Estel

Perfect As-Is

After opening, I was wary since the tea leaves were much finer than I am used to for marsala chai. I could certainly tell that real spices were used instead of flavoring, not just from the smell but I could see some of the spices. I eyeballed an amount for 4 cups of tea and heated the water. After ~2 minutes, I poured my mother and I a cup each. She drank it as-is (no milk or sugar), and her response was: "I like it since I don't need to add milk or sugar to cut the flavor. It's perfect as-is without being oppressive." I added in a splash of milk. The flavor is there, but it is not overwhelming. This will be coming with me and it will be replacing my current marsala chai loose-leaf at work. My biggest gripe is just that I wish I could buy more than 50 g at a time - that's about 20 cups, which when I'm sharing with my mother, brings me down to ~2 weeks of tea.

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23 May 2020
Olga

Great balanced masala chai

This is an amazing blend! So sm

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26 February 2020
Giuliana

Lovely blend of spices and high quality black tea

This is the first Masala chai I've tasted that has such a beautiful flavor it doesn't need any milk or sugar.

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03 December 2020
Coralie P.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

A true taste of India

One of the best Masala Chai I’ve tried!

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01 March 2021
Bernadette K.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Just the right level of spiciness

This tea is my favourite with some cake or biscuits. The spiciness of it is just right and not overpowering the wonderful black tea at its core. It's become a staple for Sundays in our house, and it loved by the whole family.

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Tasting Notes

A rich malty black tea with a perfect balance of comforting and aromatic spices. Good enough to be drunk on its own and equally perfect as a milky drink. This Masala Chai has been carefully crafted and blended to be delicious however you like to enjoy it.

Shake well before use to distribute the spice and leaves evenly. Due to the size of the grind, some sediment from the spices may get through and we would suggest using the finest strainer you own.

Quantity

Use 2.5g of tea per 150ml of water.

Temperature

For the optimum infusion use 80°C (176°F) water, or if you prefer it with milk use 100°C (212°F) water.

Time

Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly.

Infusions

You can infuse this tea at least twice.  With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.

Cost Per Cup

17p per cup based on 2.5g of tea per 150ml of water and 2 infusions.

If you want to make your Masala Chai, latte style - we recommend making a strong two-minute infusion of 60ml of boiling water with 2.5g of tea and then adding hot full fat milk.

You could also try infusing the tea in hot, full fat milk - fat carries flavour and is delicious - heat 2.5g of tea per 150ml of full fat milk until just below simmering point.

Falling in love with Chai...

Henrietta fell in love with Chai in Nepal on the way to visit the Jun Chiyabari Tea Garden...

"We stopped by the roadside and she made us a Chai so delicious that it changed my life forever.  I asked to see the tea she was using and wasn't surprised, given the wonderful flavour, that it was a lovely loose leaf. Her tea was a far higher grade than you might have expected - way beyond what you would find in a UK bag.  And this was woman in a road side hut with tarps for a roof and earth for a floor. It was the first Chai I had ever tasted that was made with real love and the best ingredients."

Many thanks to this tealady for inspiring Henrietta to blend her own version, that became our Rare Masala Chai.

Origin & Craft

Our Rare Masala Chai is a combination of hand-crafted black tea blended from harvests across a small, independent estate in the Shire Highlands of Malawi. We then blend in our own masala chai spice mix - created in London in very small batches to guarantee quality and flavour. Our spice mix is made up from ginger, green cardamom, black pepper, cloves, and cinnamon.

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