One Hot Tea

This tea is a HOT little number. This full flavored cup exudes spicy notes: combined with it's alluring saucy taste and floral aromas will leave you satisfied. It's name: "KAMA SUTRA CHAI". This black tea entwines with ginger, cinnamon, cardamon, black & white pepper, jasmine, rose, lavender petals, cloves & nutmeg. With so much sensual aromas combined, small wonder Kama Sutra Chai is it's name.

A bit of history:

Ancient Indian tradition states the Kama Sutra was wrote by a celibate monk by the name of Maharishi Vatsyayana. He lived somewhere between the 1st to the 6th century AD, known as a time of great enlightenment in culture and artistic growth. This book literally means the science of love. I guess our monk couldn't go down the road to the euphoric side of making love being as he was celibate, so had to satisfy himself with the science of it all. "Kama" means desire "Sutra"means technical manual". Like our tea it has lots of "spicy notes" on how couples can achieve sexual nirvana. How our monk got these ideas in his head to describe such sultry, sexy, and physically challenging creative ways for couples to enjoy themselves, does leave a lot of unanswered questions. Hmmmm!!! Sometimes you just gotta wonder if we have the whole story.

This is a fabulous chai tea made in the traditional Indian way and the recipe is as old as the "Kama Sutra" itself. One full bodied, well rounded cup of this Chai will leave you wanting more. Make yourself a Cuppa today and find out for yourself what makes this tea so irresistible!

Beautiful as a melange with steamed milk and vanilla.

Genmaicha Yamasaki

Ah Genmaicha, a delightful traditional Japanese blend of sencha green tea and roasted and popped rice. A strange combination you think? As did one samurai warlord during the 1400's on the Izu peninsula of Honshu Island, Japan.

While discussing battle strategy with his patrol leaders, the warlord was taking his morning tea; a servant, named Genamai, entered the warlord's tent to serve more tea. As Genamai leaned over to pour the tea, some rice that he had furtively taken for breakfast, fell from his pocket directly into the warlord's cup of tea. The legend says that the tea was so hot, the rice popped and roasted on contact! The warlord became enraged and promptly decapitated poor Genamai in one fell swoop. The warlord then sat down and continued his meeting. The warlord continued to drink his tea, despite the fact that it had been ruined by the rice. The warlord was immediately intrigued by it's unique malty, toasty and ever-so-slightly sweet flavour. He rather enjoyed this accidental discovery and proclaimed that the tea be served every morning and be called "Genmaicha", "Cha" being the Japanese name for "tea".

At least poor Genamai got a tea named in his honour and we now have a wonderfully unique and delicious tea to enjoy! Get yourself some Genmaicha Yamasaki here.

Fall In Love

With Our Autumn Teas

We have a lovely line-up for you this season! Spicy and Sweet, Sure to warm up your taste buds and toes.

ORANGE SPICE DECAF BLACK: An Autumn spice blend with orange pieces with out the caffine kick.

CARAMEL CHERRY CHEESECAKE BLACK: What a yummy blend. Add a little honey or sugar and milk to push this one over the edge of insanely good. Minus the calories of actually eating cheesecake.

CINNAMON ORANGE FUSION BLACK: If you are a cinnamon lover, you will love this in house blend.

PUMPKIN SPICE BLACK: What can be said.......Takes me back to Grandma's kitchen and her Pumpkin Pie. Try this as a latte. You won't be disappointed!

SUGAR SHACK SMOKEY MAPLE BLACK: If you ever thought the flavor of BACON should be introduced into a tea blend, well, this is it. This tea is so aromatic, you will think you have taped the syrup in your own backyard. Delicious.

VANILLA CHAI BLACK: Go ahead, get comfy, relax, maybe read a book, or maybe light a fire. This combo of Vanilla mixed with ginger, cinnamon, black & white pepper, cloves, calendula, nutmeg and more will have you wishing you had a bigger mug. Also great as a latte.

CRAN-APPLE TISANE: (tisane - a mix of fruit and herbs) Heart warming, this blend optimizes the essence of Autumn. Cranberries and Apples. What could be nicer, and no caffine

PEACHY GREEN: Ah homemade canned peaches in the fall. Do you still preserve our past, even if it's in your memory. Enjoy this tea and let it take you back to a time when FALL kitchens were abuzz with wonderful smells, colors and textures.

GINGERBREAD MAN BLACK: Yup, this is one of those teas that wafts up your nose and warms the cockles of your heart. The aroma is fantastic and the taste is of Autumn spices. I always think about the gingerbread men our local bakery would hand out this time of year when I was a child.

BELGIAN CHOCOLATE ROOIBOS: (Rooibos - is not a tea, but rather a bush that grows in South Africa) The beauty of Rooibos is that it has the quality of enhancing whatever flavoring is being blended with it. This truly tastes like Belgian Chocolate. Oh, bonus..... goes great with anything chocolate!!

AUTUMN is truly a remarkable time of year. To everything there is a season......