Speciality Teas from the Kent & Sussex Tea and Coffee Company. Explore our
coffee and tea information pages. From our family history of tea planting in India, as portrayed by
BBC News, to our current day activity at our tea factory in the most haunted village of Pluckley. Descriptions on all the different
types of tea and
types of coffee (e.g what is
Orange Pekoe Tea ?) and the
health benefits of tea drinking along with the
History of Tea and the
History of Coffee . We pack all our teas to order as
Loose Leaf Teas or
Tea Bags.
Black Tea:
The most common tea drunk in the UK is
Black tea, of which we have a broad selection including Indian teas,
Chinese Teas,
Ceylon Teas,
Nepal Teas, Sikkim Teas, Kenyan Teas and many varieties of these teas. Amongst the most popular types we have
Ceylon Orange Pekoe and we try and answer the questions about tea grading and why orange pekoe gets all the press! You can buy
black tea online.
Green Tea:
Green Tea is a natural product and unlike black teas do not go through any processing. This tea is not altered in any way so the real medicinal properties remain. We stock a great range including
China Green Tea and
Japanese Green Tea.
White Tea:
White Tea is the rarest of the teas we offer and are the least processed - it is not oxidized or rolled, they are withered by steaming and dried. Harvested on only a few days in the year, white Teas of all the teas are known for there medicinal properties. You can buy online with the help of our tea guide.
Herbal Tea:
Herbal Teas are tisanes and are produced from plant species other than Camellia Sinesis, the traditional tea bush. They are known for their great properties for medicinal purposes and for diet. Produced from dried leaves, flowers, seeds or roots.
Oolong Tea:
Oolong Tea is a unique, traditional semi-fermented tea from China and Taiwan. With differing levels of oxidation giving a wonderful selection of rare and delicious teas.
Flavoured Teas & Fruit Tisanes:
We stock a good range of
flavoured teas including the famous chai tea
Bombay Tea, Rose Tea, Apple Tea, Mango Flavoured Tea and many more. Our Fruit Tisanes are real pieces of fruit and berries... the real thing, delicious as an ice tea when summer arrives.
Sussex Tea Fruit Tisanes.
Speciality Coffees
We Roast and pack all our own coffees to order from
Single Origin Coffees,
Rain Forest Alliance Coffees,
Espresso Coffee Roasts to
Flavoured Coffees. Our
Flavoured Coffees include
Chocolate Flavoured Coffee,
Brandy Flavoured Coffee to name a few.
Rare & Exotic Loose Leaf & Tea Bags
Cretan Mountain Tea from Greece and
Olive Leaf Tea.
Lemon Verbena Loose Leaves.
Rooibos Tea - Redbush from south Africa With a green rooibos tea new in stock.
From China why not try a
Ching Wo a
Puerh Tea or some
Wulong Tea, which is known as a slimming tea.
Named after the Ghosts of Pluckley we have our truly exotic Blue Lady Tea and White Lady Tea.
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