They are often used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, but can be used for stirring any tea (stirring of other things that aren’t tea also possible!).

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Our wild-grown Vietnamese Black Snow Faerie, from the Ho Thau region, is a marvellously rich tippy black tea. It is harvested from wild tea trees that grow 2000m above sea level in mountainous North Vietnam (bordering with Yunnan). In the cup, it is richly scented and gold textured. It tastes earthy, yet pleasingly fresh and floral. You can detect a touch of smoke and a hint of mountain haar, as the Red Dow tribal people who pick and craft the tea fire it using woks, in order to halt the oxidation process and lock in the tea’s complexities. The unique taste of this sublime brew wonderfully evokes the landscape and culture from whence it originates.

Faeries’ Blood is an expertly blended, refreshing, fruity, minty and naturally sweet herbal infusion. This blood-red concoction is freshly squeezed daily from the faeries of the River Kelvin. It is jam-packed with magical goodness from their diet of strawberries, kiwi fruit, hibiscus, peppermint, camomile and fluffy raspberry leaf. We find it great for inducing a sense of calm and well-being. It is a satisfyingly rich brew on its own, but we recommend enhancing the subtlety of the herbs with a healthy spoonful of honey.

Our Sumie ceramic tea bowls are pretty porcelain cups, coming in a variety of patterns. They are dishwasher safe. Please drop us a line if you’re after particular patterns – choosing from striped, chequered, geometric, woven and dotted – and we’ll do our best to oblige.

The Yong brass shovel is an elegant brass tea-serving utensil, which will add a touch of class and precision to teatime.

Our mug-sized, high grade stainless steel tea strainer has a cute bamboo handle so you don’t burn your pinkie!

Check out our other hamper sets here:

Single Origin Tea Hamper

Spiced Tea Hamper

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Our wild-grown Vietnamese Black Snow Faerie, from the Ho Thau region, is a marvellously rich tippy black tea. It is harvested from wild tea trees that grow 2000m above sea level in mountainous North Vietnam (bordering with Yunnan). In the cup, it is richly scented and gold textured. It tastes earthy, yet pleasingly fresh and floral. You can detect a touch of smoke and a hint of mountain haar, as the Red Dow tribal people who pick and craft the tea fire it using woks, in order to halt the oxidation process and lock in the tea’s complexities. The unique taste of this sublime brew wonderfully evokes the landscape and culture from whence it originates.

Our Sencha Emerald Green is a fine, handcrafted Japanese green tea, produced without use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. It is grown by the Morimoto family of Kyushu, southern Japan, using the Okumidori cultivar. It offers a robust, vegetal palate with just a hint of sea salt, minimal astringency and a naturally sweet aftertaste.

The beautiful yet simple 150ml kungfu teapot, made of unglazed Yixing clay, matures with usage. It is primarily used for high quality loose leaf teas and is a must have for any tea connoisseur, allowing the full potential of your leaves to unfold.

Our Sumie ceramic tea bowls are pretty porcelain cups, coming in a variety of patterns. They are dishwasher safe. Please drop us a line if you’re after particular patterns – choosing from striped, chequered, geometric, woven and dotted – and we’ll do our best to oblige.

How to prepare your single origin teas with the Kung Fu tea pot:

1. warm up pot and tea cups with hot water
2. add 2 teaspoons of tea to pot
3. add 150ml i) 80°C water if brewing Sencha or ii) 90°C water if brewing Black Snow Faerie
4. Brew for between 30 seconds and a minute
5. Decant all infusion evenly into both cups
6. Re-infuse with hot water and longer brewing time up to 4 times

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Spiced Tea Hamper

Tea Faerie Hamper

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Yogi Chai Masala, based on a North Indian recipe, is our best-seller and signature house blend. It was recently honoured with a Great Taste award. This rich, sweet, spicy concoction is blended using Assam loose leaf black tea and fresh, high quality, direct sourced spices, including cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and ginger. We honestly believe that it is one of the best chai recipes in the world!

Our Mulled Wine Tea blend is a non-alcoholic variant on Tchai-Ovna founder Martin’s old Czech family recipe. It is created using a cosy kaleidoscope of oolong tea, fruit pieces and freshly ground spices and herbs, including ethically-sourced cinnamon, cloves, apple pieces, pepper and hibiscus. Although traditionally drunk through the Winter, it is highly enjoyable and refreshing in any weather.

Clay chai cups, known in India as “kulhar”, are the traditional way to sup your spiced tea.

Our sleek stainless steel measuring spoon allows you to get your tea measurements bang on.

Our mug-sized, high grade stainless steel tea strainer has a cute bamboo handle so you don’t burn your pinkie!

Check out our other hamper sets here:

Tea Faerie Hamper

Single Origin Tea Hamper

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Made using native Scottish clay slips, alluvial deposits and wood and peat ash glazes they speak to the overall aims of Crunch Willoughby’s practice; to celebrate place, provenance, sustainability and Scottish materials.

Crunch thought their name should reflect their Scottish spirit so she christened them the ‘Stravaig mug’. Still a ‘travel’ mug in function but with a Scottish heart.

Crunch Willoughby – Ceramicist

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It is traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony, but is also suitable for producing tea with a gaiwan, or any other tea where you may wish to discard the overly strong first infusion.

Even if you aren’t using the drainage reservoir, it makes for a stylish way of serving your tea to honoured guests.

Other supplies for the Japanese tea ceremony, including our ceremonial grade matcha, can be found here:
Matcha set incl. organic Miumori Kirishima ceremonial grade matcha:

Matcha teaware set incl. organic Miumori Kirishima ceremonial grade matcha

Organic Miumori Kirishima ceremonial grade matcha

Matcha ceremonial grade – organic Miumori Kirishima

Matcha whisk:

Bamboo Matcha Whisk

Technicolour “Yuki” Matcha ceremony tea bowl 400ml:

Technicolour “Yuki” Matcha ceremony tea bowl 400ml

Efude handcrafted matcha ceremony tea bowl 400ml:

Efude handcrafted matcha ceremony tea bowl 400ml

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