Tea Lady Online
Estate/Regional Black Tea (plain):

  • Darjeeling (NE India)
  • Assam (NE India)
  • Ceylon (Sri-Lanka/Ceylon)
  • Keemun (China)
  • Lelsa (Kenya)
FYI - Black Tea

Mastering the fine art of tea requires an intimate knowledge of the soil, altitude, climate and humidity as will as
timing of the various stages of preparation.

The process starts by placing the harvested leaves on drying racks to wither until they become limp.  The leaves
are then rolled, bruised and/or broken to release the enzymes from the  veins.

Next the leaves are placed in fermentation rooms for a few hours until their green color turns just the right shade
of copper red.

Now it is time to stop the fermentation.  This is done in a firing that both dries the leaves as will as completes
the fermentation.

The dried leaves are sifted and sorted by size.  The larger leaves are reserved for the finer grade teas.  The
smaller bits, stems, pieces of branches and dust particles are sold to commercial enterprises for supermarket
quality tea bags.
CO 2 Decaffeinated Black tea:

  • Darjeeling
  • Raspberry
  • Peach
  • Apricot
  • English Breakfast
  • Vanilla Velvet
Our Black tea
selections are: