Black Tea

Picking Withering Rolling Oxidation

Firing

Black tea is fully oxidised.

The tea leaves are firstly picked and withered. After withering, the leaves are rolled which bruises the leaf and exposes its juices to the air. The enzymes in the leaf act as a catalyst for oxidation and the leaf turns from green to vivid red. The leaves are then fired and sorted.

India, Sri Lanka and China are the most famous producers of high quality black tea.

Black tea has a strong flavour and the highest caffeine content of all teas. It is fantastic with milk, and if you taste requires, sugar. Although a high quality assam, darjeeling or keemun, is also delicious without milk.

JING Assam Gold Black Tea (Greenwood Estate)

This is one of the best Assam teas we tasted this year. Composed of whole black leaf and a huge proportion of golden tips. For the dedicated Assam connoisseur.

From £5.65 for 50g

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JING Assam Breakfast Black Tea

A fantastic breakfast tea. Assam tea is low-grown and holds a reputation as the strongest full-bodied tea to be found. Perfect for those who love a strong and malty cup of tea, with or without milk

From £2.90 for 50g

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Keemun Gong Fu Black Tea | Keemun Gong Fu Hong Cha

CHINA BREAKFAST TEA

A clean and assertive Keemun of excellent standard. Perfect for everyday drinking.

From £3.15 for 50g

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Keemun Mao Feng Black Tea (Keemun Hair Peak) | Keemun Mao Feng Hong Cha

The most outstanding example of a Keemun tea produced in the last three years.

From £6.35 for 50g

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JING Ceylon Black Tea

JING Ceylon is an outstanding example of its type, composed of long whole leaf from New Vithanakanda tea garden. Takes well to milk but best drunk black. Full bodied, soothing and complex.

From £2.95 for 50g

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Yunnan Gold Black Tea | Yunnan Dian Hong

Strong and full-bodied, this black tea from rich-soiled Yunnan province is particularly good first thing in the morning. Its underlying sweetness also goes well with a late afternoon slice of Madeira cake or a sticky piece of baklava.

From £7.00 for 50g

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Organic Bohea Lapsang Supreme Black Tea | Wuyi Ji Ping Bohea Hong Cha

Rich, excitingly pungent, full of the rounded almost peaty smoke notes given by cunningly banked fires of local pine. Complex and teasing with a hazel-sweet freshness behind the supple smoke.

From £12.00 for 50g

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Organic Bohea Lapsang Black Tea | Wuyi Bohea Hong Cha

Richly and smoulderingly smoky yet with great harmony and wealth of aroma, leaving an impression of almost peaty warmth.

From £4.90 for 50g

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JING Earl Grey Supreme Black Tea

JING Earl Grey tea defines how Earl Grey should taste. Made from a base of exceptional whole leaf Ceylon scented with bergamot and sprinkled with cornflowers to create a tea that delights all the senses.

From £2.75 for 50g

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Vanilla Black Tea

A black tea scented with sumptuous, moistly ripe vanilla and a soft, raisin-sweet edge.

From £3.10 for 50g

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Lychee Red Black Tea | Li Che Hong Cha

The sweetest black tea from Guangdong in Southern China. Scented with Lychee. It is the best tea for making ice tea, simply add a little to some cold water and allow to infuse over night in the fridge.

From £2.80 for 50g

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