COLUMBIAN BLACK comes from the Andes. It has large long wiry leaves. Brews to an amber color infusion with a full body and a smooth sweet mellow taste. This is a high grown tea which is cultivated at over 6,000 feet above sea level in the mist-capped Andes in Colombia where there is high rainfall. The plantation is a tiny tea garden nestled alongside a thriving, protected rain forest. The tea is grown in rich, deep, young volcanic soils that naturally promote lush tea plant growth.
English Tealeaves sells over 125 high quality teas that are "cherry picked" from over 15 suppliers who specialize in specific types and countries. This gives us the flexibility to find the best of the best. We also blend around 8 teas ourselves that can't be obtained to our standards. For example our #1 selling tea, English Breakfast is our own blend that we created in 2002.
Our Cafe customers give feedback and we discontinue the ones that get poor ratings. We also look to improve our teas and will replace a standard tea, like say Mango, with a higher quality blend from another supplier.
The teas are selected after evaluation in these seven areas and then the scores are weighted to decide if they qualify for inclusion in our range:
• Dry leaves
• Dry aroma
• Brewed Infusion Color
• Aroma brewed
• Taste profile
• Iced taste
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