The Drury Tea & Coffee Company, London-based tea blender and coffee roaster with almost 80 years experience of buying and blending fine teas, has added to its already extensive range of pyramid teabags with the introduction of three new varieties, Genmai Cha, Green Tea with Black Cherry and Decaffeinated Breakfast. This brings the total number of varieties in the range to 30, comprising black, green and oolong teas, fruit infusions and herbal teas.
The pyramid shape of the teabags is important, since it allows the tea to brew more efficiently. It also permits the use of larger leaf teas, which is beneficial in some of the blends. Apart from the specialist teabag material used, the most visually remarkable thing about the teabags is its stunning packaging. Designed with a blue ‘family’ feel, each of 21 varieties is differentiated by an Art Deco-style illustration relevant to the respective tea type. The design evokes the mood of the thirties when The Drury Tea & Coffee Company was founded.
New Varieties
Genmai Cha
Fine Japanese green tea blended with roasted and popped brown rice. With its pale brown/yellow liquor and unique sweet and savoury taste, there’s nothing quite like Genmai Cha. Originally and traditionally drunk by the poorer sections of Japanese society, (the rice acted as a“filler”) this deliciously unusual tea is now enjoyed by everybody. Drink without milk.
Green Tea with Black Cherry
Finest quality Chinese Chun Mee green tea, delicately scented with natural Black Cherry flavour. Deliciously sweet and fruity, but with a remarkably balanced flavour, this light liquoring tea should always be drunk without milk.
Decaffeinated Breakfast
This leafy Breakfast tea from Sri Lanka may have had most of the caffeine removed, but it has lost none of its flavour! Still full-bodied, rounded and punchy, it’s a Breakfast tea that can be drunk at any time of the day or night. Excellent with or without milk.
The newcomers join an eclectic range of black teas, green teas, tisanes and infusions that already make up the Drury pyramid range of speciality teabags. Cartons each contain 15 teabags and are packed six to a case. Cost price for the new teas is from £2.95. Alternatively, for convenience and cost saving, all three new varieties are available in bulk catering packs of 100 from £16.20