Zarafina Teas

All great-tasting cups of tea start with selecting the finest leaves. 2 ounces of loose tea come in a storage tin. White Needle Tea is a jewel carefully plucked from the top of the tea bushes that grow in the stream and mountain Song Yang region of Zhejiang Province, these slender sage-green leaves require intense concentration to seek and find. Watch as these leaves pirouette, dance to the music of water as it fills the teapot with nectar. When you pour the brewed tea into your cup, you will finally understand how sensual, how satisfying, how comforting tea can be?all day long. Osmanthus Herbal Tea is redolent of intoxicating summer apricots, the golden osmanthus flower is as old as tea itself, mentioned in nearly every ancient tome about China's classic teas. Now, you, too, can enjoy the pure pleasure of its floral scent and slightly citrusy tang alone as an herbal infusion served hot or iced. Or, do as the Chinese did (and do), blend a sprinkle of osmanthus leaves into your favorite teas. Fun, delicious, unique. No caffeine, of course. Wuyi Oolong Tea is grown among the fabled Wuyi Mountains, wrapped in the clouds and fog that gives its leaves their incredible, complex perfume and taste, Rock Tea offers multiple infusions, each with a different nuance on the flavor scale, reflecting the defiance, nay, the magic, of the unforgiving gaps of mountainous rocks. An oolong processed midway between green and black, its large leaves should be brewed in small pots to bring out its best. Golden Monkey Tea provides one sip and its whisper of chocolate seduces; the body relaxes, absorbs its pleasure. This is the tea you hoard for its total joy, or share only with those who truly appreciate the fine art of tea. Grown near the Tai Mu Mountains of Fujian, it is considered the king of the Chinese high-grade black teas, hand-plucked for the top leaf and the bud, brewed for smooth, full-bodied flavor and lingering aftertaste. A revelation to haunt all tea memories.