Shade-grown yerba mate with all the qualities mate should provide; grassy and fresh-tasting, a natural energy booster that won’t jolt you down later, like coffee or espresso.  Yerba mate contains matteine, similar to caffeine, and this is the national beverage of Argentina, sipped continuously throughout the day from ‘portable bombilla-like kits’ in some countries.

Serving Suggestion:  Serving the traditional way, in a gourd with a bombilla (straw) or simply brew like tea and enjoy in your favorite mug.

Brewing Instructions:  Use 1 heaping tsp. to 1 tbs. per 8 oz. water, to taste.  Steep 3-4 minutes at 180F.  Let beverages cool to approximately 170F before consuming.

Ingredients:  Yerba mate, sourced from a certified organic, Fair Trade supplier.

$7.00 $6.00/ 2oz bag

Also known as The Iron goddess of Mercy, this beloved classic oolong gives the toasty, smoky, charcoal-roasted notes so inherent in this tea.

Serving Suggestion:  Serve hot with no sweetener.

Brewing Instructions:   Use 1 heaping tsp. to 1 tbs. per 8 oz. water, to taste.  Steep 4 minutes at 190-195F.  Several infusions possible.

Ingredients:  Oolong tea

Sourced from a certified, Fair Trade supplier.

$15.00 $14.00/ 2oz bag

The Darjeeling region of India yields much gentler tea than Assam–lighter, nutty, with nuances accompanying each ‘flush’ or picking.  As seasons pass, the infusion with each picking becomes bolder and yet retains the essence of why Darjeeling is known as ‘the champagne of tea‘..truly a delicacy even with later flushes, accompanying the perceptible earthiness of Indian teas.  A toasty essence combines to give a lovely finish.  This is an autumnal flush Darjeeling.

Serving Suggestion:   Serve black or with milk & sweetener.

Brewing Instructions:  Use 1 heaping tsp. to 1 tbs. per 8 oz. water, to taste.  Steep 4 minutes at 190-195F

Ingredients: (Autumnal flush) Darjeeling black tea

Sourced from a certified organic, Fair Trade supplier

$8.00 $7.00/ 2oz bag

Pu-erh is smooth, so very smooth, and so rich.  After it is oxidized, the leaves are fermented.  Some call it double oxidation or double fermentation.  It gives the tea special properties both in taste and benefits.  This amazing loose leaf pu-erh is mellowed with mint and vanilla,  A perfect tea for coffee drinkers, with a rich, dark infusion, strong, smooth and complex.

Serving Suggestion:  Serve hot and black

$12.00 $9.00/ 2oz bag