Collection: Tea

We're a bit geeky about tea.

Sometimes you can’t beat a mug of Builder’s ™, preferably with a big slice of cake but as with wine there is a whole wide world of flavours out there beyond the mainstream and there’s a tea for every moment of the day. Which you can’t say about wine. I usually draw the line at breakfast.

We choose our teas according to the same criteria as our wines – first and foremost that they are delicious but also that they are produced naturally, sustainably and ethically. Very often they are from small farms just as our wines are from small vineyards. As with wine it comes back to people and place.

We fell in love with botanical infusions (tisanes) a few years ago on a visit to a friend living in the mountains of Trentino-Alto Adige in northern Italy. They were a revelation. We drank infusions made with locally grown herbs and flowers that were complex and tasty, revitalising and soothing, relaxing and invigorating. Not a flavouring in sight just authentic flavours and pure enjoyment.