February 2013
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Free Tea February! →
Throughout February we’re offering our customers up to 50% extra tea free on a range of our best selling, fresh, loose leaf teas!
The loose leaf teas on offer in Free Tea February include some of our most popular and well received, including: Pre Rain Huang Shan Mao Feng from China; Dong Ding Oolong from Taiwan; Organic Ruby Oolong (GABA tea) from Thailand; as well as Doke’s Organic...
December 2012
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Another Amazing Artisan White Tea Review!
Our delicious Doke Organic Silver Needle 2nd Flush White Tea receives another great review, this time on Teaviews.com where it’s rated 9.1/10!
http://www.teaviews.com/2012/12/14/review-driftwood-tea-organic-doke-silver-needle-second-flush/
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The image they’ve used is actually of the 1st flush harvest, the second flush looks slightly more like pine needles however, it remains one of...
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November 2012
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October 2012
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A driftwood tea Update - Tea Samples & Our New...
Having listened to your feedback, over the forthcoming months we are beginning to introduce a lot of changes to driftwood tea. This will be happening while we work towards the launch of our exciting new website - coming early next year - which will provide you with clearer information on all 30 teas we currently stock, while also making ordering tea easier and faster - especially for our...
August 2012
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When it comes to tea never work with children or...
…or siblings it appears! For those of you waiting for Kelda’s third entry into ‘On The Road and Buying Tea’ well, so are we! Given her current movements, broken Thai phone, and intermittent internet access contacting Kel recently has been patchy at best. We’ve not heard or received anything from her in the last couple of days however, Facebook updates mean we know...
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On The Road And Buying Tea - Part 1
Do you not just love the feeling of waking up and not knowing where you actually are? Perhaps this sensation is more generally attributed to drunks, or prostitutes, though it’s also an occupational hazard for tea importers too! As I awoke yesterday, bleary eyed from my slumber, I slowly began to remember the incredible journey I have undertaken over the past 2.5 days, well off the tourist...
June 2012
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creativorigins asked: Hey James. I really admire that you started a business after all. It takes GUTS to start a business. :) Much success. Why did you decide that this was the business for you?
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One Year Of driftwood tea
It was one year ago today, on the 13th June 2011, that I came up with the name driftwood tea and decide to pursue full time a career that encapsulated my love of the loose leaf. Despite many difficulties, and on occasions some stress, it has never been a decision that I’ve regretted - much! (I suppose having a lot of tea on hand has probably helped during the more demanding periods!)
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May 2012
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New Harvest Teas: From Sample To Sale
From when I first sample a new harvest loose leaf tea, to receiving my first shipment of it in the UK, during that period of waiting I always feel a real sense of childish excitement as I imagine the journey it’s making half way around the world. Drinking new harvest teas at this time of year, in the UK, is still fairly astonishing. I find it remarkable to think that 10 or so years ago,...
April 2012
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A First Flush of White Tea
It’s always with a certain degree of trepidation that I try teas that are perhaps more traditionally from another region or country however, over the past couple of years certainly, the range of white tea coming out of India has been particularly notable.
Around this time of year I will taste more teas than at any other point and, while the romantic notion would have me travelling around...
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