Tea Type: Oolong
Taste Profile: Creamy, with a buttery caramel sweetness
Food Pairing: Enjoy alone - its sweetness is treat enough
Numerology – NO. 880: We’ve given our Milk Oolong the number 880, a nod to the bygone days of the 1880s when milk was delivered four times a day by horse-drawn carts. British milk bottles were first produced in 1880, and featured a stylish porcelain stopper – the very same bottles Walter Whittard would have found on his doorstep each morning…
Tea Type: Oolong
Taste Profile: Creamy, with a coconutty caramel sweetness
Food Pairing: Enjoy alone - its sweetness is treat enough
Numerology – NO. 984: Who would have thought that the cause of 2.5 per cent of injuries treated at a New Guinea hospital would be falling coconuts? Well, it was recorded in a report in 1984, so we’ve numbered our Coconut Oolong 984. We’ll stick to it in our tea, thanks…
Tea Type: Black Tea
Taste Profile: Sweet, juicy lychee
Food Pairing: Chinese dumplings
Numerology – NO. 600: The Imperial concubine Lady Yang Kuei Fei was said to be rather fond of lychees – so much so that the Emperor Hsuan Tsung had fresh lychees brought 600 miles from Canton to his northern palace, just to woo her favour.
