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4 Places to Buy Fair-Trade Tea Online

Categories: Black tea, Fair Trade tea, Green tea, Oolong tea, Organic tea, Pu-erh tea, Tisanes, White tea
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Post date: December 10, 2009
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Fair trade is a tricky thing. I’ve written before about why I believe fair trade is important, but there’s a flipside: too often, fair trade tea is of lower quality to similarly-priced, non-fair trade tea. Which leaves a tea lover to decide between sacrificing quality or sacrificing an ethical stance.

Over the past year I have bought primarily non-fair trade tea, for one big reason: there are very few fair trade tea options around here in Melbourne, and the ones that I can find tend to be in teabag form. But one goal I’ve set for myself over the next few months is to explore some of the fair trade tea options available online. Here are five online tea stores that sell fair trade tea.

Cyber Monday Giveaway from The Tea Spot

Categories: Specials, White tea
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Post date: November 30, 2009
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Just a quick plug following on from my previous post about specials on over the Black Friday – Cyber Monday period: The Tea Spot are giving away a tin of Snowflakes White Tea with every order made today. Snowflakes is a single-estate white tea.

Special Deals for September

Categories: Black tea, Organic tea, Pu-erh tea, Specials
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Post date: September 23, 2009
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So call me slow, but over the past week I’ve seen a few different tea sellers promoting some great specials. If you’re looking to buy some tea, now’s the time!

  • Mighty Leaf Tea are giving a 25% discount off selected black teas. This offer runs out on September 25, so you have to act quick. If you’re looking for a good place to start, try their Organic Breakfast Tea.
  • Numi Organic Tea is offering a 25% discount on their flavoured pu-erh teas. Get 2 boxes of their pu-erh tea for $14.95 when you quote Coupon Code NMP99. This offer runs out after September 30.
  • The Tea Spot are donating 10% of all their sales in September to prostate cancer survivors.

New Tea Community, a year's supply of tea and 30% off Vintage Oolong from The Tea Spot

Categories: Miscellaneous, Oolong tea, Specials
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Post date: August 13, 2009
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There are a few exciting things going on in the world of tea at the moment. Fellow tea bloggers Griffin Kelton (from Tea Time Tuesday) and Tony Gebley (from World of Tea) launched a tea community earlier this week, called The Tea Roundtable. I signed up but haven’t had time to post anything yet, though it’s clear there’s a real buzz around the forums. That may be due to the site’s current competition: the first person to post 25 times in the forums will win themselves a year’s supply of tea from Narien Teas. Nice one!

The other thing that I quickly wanted to mention is that The Tea Spot have slashed 30% off their Vintage Oolong, which is a single-estate, medium-bodied oolong from Taiwan. Here’s how The Tea Spot describe their tea:

With a sweet, nutty flavor, this tea captures the subtlety of what amazing, full?leaf tea should taste like. Hints of ripe apricots and lilacs combine to produce a tender, timeless green oolong; hence the name! This tea yields a bright, amber liquor and should be re?steeped multiple times. Each successive steeping will unveil new flavors & aromas, until the leaves are fully opened. Delicate, refined, and understated – this is the true connoisseur?s tea!

Head over to The Tea Spot now.