September 2009
Welcome to the Exotic Tea House.
Here is a short but wonderful video about the health benefits of tea drinking.
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More on the Health Benefits of Tea. Tea is truly amazing for your health.I’ll have some follow up articles posted soon with links to the supporting research.
I thought I’d open here with discussion [...]
Morocca Mint Tea
This exotic tea consist of Chinese Gunpowder tea (high quality Green Tea hand rolled into small pellets) and the flavors of Spearmint and Peppermint.
We can consider Moroccan Mint Tea as an exotic tea but in Morocco it is the most common beverage. It is so popular there that Morocco is the #1 imported of Chinese [...]
Jasmine Tea
Enjoy this very floral Green Tea and experience why it is China’s favorite and most consumed exotic tea. Jasmine is harvested in the afternoon and stored until evening when its fragrance is at its fullest. Then and only then the Jasmine petals are mated with the fine Green Tea of Fujian Provence.
The petals and the [...]
Darjeeling Black Tea
Darjeeling Black Tea is considered the champagne of teas. Light in color and thin-bodied this gourmet tea has a muscatel flavor and a slightly astringent after taste. There are seasonal differences to note.
Springtime tea has a light green liquor it is brisk and mildly astringent.
Summer tea has a fuller flavor, becoming muscatel and with a [...]
White Licorice Tea
I can’t say enough about White Licorice Tea, I just love it this exotic tea. Iced it is the most refreshing and thirst quenching beverage I’ve ever had. And hot it is extremely soothing. The licorice flavor adds to the warming effects of this gourmet tea.
The two elements of White Licorice Tea are one, white [...]
White Ginger Tea
The pleasure of the Orient
The combination of White Tea’s Yin Zhen buds and Ginger Root produces a delicate aromatic exotic tea with zest. White tea and Ginger is a wonderful combination and this tea is often called “The Pleasure of the Orient”.
Enjoy all the health benefits of white tea (see entries on White Tea and [...]
Flavored or Flowered Tea
There is a vast array of flowered tea combinations for us to explore and enjoy. Discovering these different taste experience is one of the reasons that gourmet tea drinking is so fun.
We have been mixing flowers and herbs together with leaves of the Camellia Sinensis (tea) plant for centuries, adding new dimensions to our [...]
Health Benefits of White Tea & Green Tea
The most wholesome tea is White Tea. Its leaves are plucked very young, before they have completely opened. As a matter of fact the most cherished White Tea consists of unopened buds. It is called Bai Hao Yin Zhen or Silver Needle, which is descriptive of the unopened buds. One of two other varieties is [...]
Lapsong Souchong
The smoky aroma of this exotic tea is enchanting. Lapsong Souchong is comprised of high quality bold black tea leaves. These leaves are then smoked over embers of pine. The full bodied Lapsong Souchong leaf supports the distinct addition of pine smoking where a lesser quality tea would be overcome by it.
Lapsong Souchong was created [...]
There are several advantages you receive when you buy tea online.
First , you have the opportunity to visit several tea shops instantly. Unless you live in an Eastern country that produces tea, this is something you are unable to do. If you live in a large city you may have a choice between 2 or 3 specialty tea shops. Chances are even then, you will [...]