A Few Teas I Have Enjoyed This Year

 I was thinking today as I was enjoying a cup of tea, that I have tried new tea companies over the  past couple of years-and have really enjoyed the journey with their teas.

 Oliver Pluff & Company  based in Charleston South Carolina shares tea blends from our American history On their site they share a blog and the history of teas.

This company is a bit expensive with the shipping in my opinion,  but I have enjoyed this tea. Says it was Martha Washington's favorite

A couple of months ago I shared Harney & Sons  If you like nice tins at an affordable price, this company has them. I have enjoyed their teas so far too.

  One of the teas I purchased was Snow White-it had white tea, apple pieces, apple flavors, coneflower, and  marigold flowers.  This was a lovely tea very light in flavors

From their site-how to brew white teas

Can't remember now,  if it was last year or the year before, but I had purchased several teas-a splurge at the time- from Simpson & Vail  I have really enjoyed their teas allot. I purchased all loose teas-no tea bags-and in their paper bags, not their tins. They have tea blends with different author inspired tea blends, national parks and more.  This site has allot of tea information and all things tea

   One of the teas I bought was the Shenandoah National Park-this tea was one of the few of the parks that was decaf with green tea Of course I wanted their Yellowstone tea but it is made with black tea.(caffeine)  Their photos are set up so I can't share them.

   This year I discovered Twinings teas which I am in love with. Our small wal mart store added allot of different teas before the holidays this year including Twinings-I picked up their green tea with jasmine flavors-lovely 

    

   I don't want to forget Bigelow teas They are a USA  family owned company, and they have many herbal and decaf teas for someone like me that can not have caffeine (it raises my blood pressure sky high). 

   When I was contacting tea companies about plastics in their teas or tea bags-No was the answer I got from them The are constantly testing for No plastics I love that.

  Growing up at home- my Mom was not a big tea drinker but she did make ice tea from  scratch in the summer time and she loved constant comment-back tea only back then . I was so happy when they introduced their green tea version 

    This must be something new, not being able to copy and paste a photo from these tea companies. Oh well  Here is a link to Bigelow

Have you explored new teas???  I  need to stop purchasing and start getting teas used up-but has been a fun adventure.