The Bean Shop

A Black Tea Christmas Gift Selection

Name: A Black Tea Christmas Gift Selection
Brand: The Bean Shop
Price: 72.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£72.00 GBP

The Black Tea Christmas Gift Selection. 6 x 200g. The teas are all freshly packed to order for you and can be sent directly to your gift recipient. We package your gift selection in a gift box with your message on a gift tag*. The price includes delivery in the UK and the following teas.

Breakfast Blend - Breakfast Blend is a strong, robust infusion with full-bodied malty taste. It is created from tippy orthodox processed tea and has a spicy flavour and a reddish-brown liquor. The broken leaf (BOP - Broken Orange Pekoe) gives a stronger faster brew which is especially suited to the morning and suits a splash of milk if required.

Assam - Tea is indigenous to Assam in India, making this one of the world's oldest types of tea. It is a large-leaf organically grown, orthodox processed tea with lots of the highly sought after tips. When brewed there is an amber liquor with a rich full malty flavour with spicy, fruity and cocoa notes which is what you'd expect from one of India's finest teas.

Ceylon Silver Tip - Grown in the Ratnapura region, where the teas are protected from the drying winds of the south western monsoons, this beautiful silver tipped needle shaped, wiry tea produces a bright amber cup that has a distinctive aroma, a sweet honey flavour and a smooth caramel finish.

Keemun - A soft aromatic and mild tea with a sweet and spicy bouquet, Keemun is the most well known of China's black teas. It has a small leaf which is delicately scented, reminiscent of orchids and produces an almost nutty deep red liquor. Notes of honey, plum, orchid, pine and sesame.

First Flush Darjeeling - The first flush refers to the first picking period between mid March and the end of May, when the spring rains stimulate new growth on the tea bushes, resulting in light bodied tea with intense aromas.

Yunnan Golden Tips - The leaf is very attractive, large and twisted, black, with plenty of golden tips. The liquor is deep and full with a well rounded traditionally malty flavour.

How will my coffee be packaged?

We use heat sealed bags with a one-way valve (to let gases escape but none in) and this will keep your coffee fresh for up to four months unopened (if you really want to keep it that long!) We use box-bottomed resealable valve bags as our default but if you want the tall non-resealable valve bags then please ask in the notes for order section. We then pack your bags of coffee into bespoke cardboard boxes. These will prevent your coffee from being damaged in transit and are 100% recyclable.

Where does The Bean Shop deliver to?

We currently deliver all over the UK and Europe. It can get a bit tricky further afield than that as it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track on the parcel's whereabouts. To be honest there is probably a coffee roaster a bit closer if you're outside Europe anyway!

How much does postage cost?

No-one really likes paying for postage but in order to avoid increasing our prices we have opted to charge a flat-rate of £3.00 for all our UK orders. This is expensive if you only buy one bag of coffee but becomes very reasonable if you order more bags. We use Royal Mail 1st class for orders up to 3 bags. For orders 4 bags and over we use DPD 48 hour delivery as a default (this option will require a signature upon delivery.)

In geographically isolated areas of the UK, DPD can take longer than 48 hours so we have added the option of paying for Royal Mail which could be more efficient.

How long will it take?

We aim to deliver your order within 48 hours of receiving it (under normal circumstances) and are often much quicker! During peak periods (i.e. Christmas) your order may take a little longer due to delays or extreme weather conditions.

If I'm not in?

For orders of 1 bag of coffee our boxes are post-box friendly so should be delivered whether or not you're in. For larger parcels, usually the delivery person will leave a card saying it has been returned to the post depot where you can collect it from. Many customers find it easier to have their coffee delivered to their place of work so that there is always someone there to accept it.