Cumulus & Cirrus Cloud Teas
Cumulus and Cirrus, two first flush black teas from Lakyrsiew, are a truly delicious way we can share a little of the joy we’ve had tasting teas this season.
Usually, when choosing a new harvest of a beloved tea, we taste a spread of samples, picked over certain days from certain fields. Sometimes we select a single day's pick from one field, or it could be a blend of a few days' harvest, or fields, to find the best expression of the flavour we all know and love (and often can't live without). Cumulus or Cirrus would make a wonderful new release in their own right, but blended they are also sublime. Still beaming with the early spring in Meghalaya and drenched with the character of this unique farm, these are both stunning teas.
This year, we decided to let you into the fun of the tasting process by comparing teas that are so similar on the surface, yet subtly and wonderfully different.
Season, terroir, varietal, cultivar, pruning cycle, bush age, leaf age or picking 'round', oxidation level, withering, rolling, crafting - these all explain something of how two teas picked just nine days apart, from adjacent fields, might differ.
Bag bundle contains 1 x 25g Bag Cumulus Tea, 1 x 25g Bag Cirrus Tea. Tin Bundle contains 1 x 25g Bag Cumulus Tea, 1 x 25g Bag Cirrus Tea, 2 x storage tins.
Fill your pot with the all-round good teas from the Rare Tea Company, curators of fine tea from across the globe.
There’s a lot that has to happen for Rare Tea Company to class a tea as “good.” Firstly, exceptional taste is a must and they personally search out tea gardens and farmers delivering remarkable flavours.
Next, the tea must be grown using organic, sustainable methods. There are no pesticides or herbicides on any of their supplier farms. Their packaging is just as green too – free from the bleaches, glue and microplastics often used by other brands.
What’s more, the Rare Tea Company will only work with farms where workers are treated fairly and responsibly. And they also cut out the middleman, working directly with their farmers, which keeps the value of the tea where it belongs – with the people who grow it.
From a delicate chamomile tea made of whole flowers, to a perfectly balanced Earl Grey, take your tea time up a notch with their range.