In the afternoon, a brown box arrived with some new teas to try from Yorkshire Tea. At home, we both watched the webinar and tried each flavour.
My husband was trying to cook an early dinner, so I had to quickly type up some notes for this article. It was a fun event, but it’s taken me a while to sit down and finish it.
Professional Tea Tasters
Yorkshire Tea is a family-owned company based in Harrogate, England. We listened to two of their staff members, Kate Halloran, Tea Innovation Manager and Will Dixon, Tea Buyer.
Tasters taste the tea at double strength with water brewed at the exact same time and heat, to ensure an even playing field. Then, each tea is scored.
The aim is that the tea…. tastes the same, consistently.
There are three main teas in the range:
- Yorkshire Tea – Proper Black Tea: A proper brew, pure and simple. Great quality with loads of flavour.
- Yorkshire Gold: A blend of three-leaf origins from ten gardens in the world. Assam, Kenya, and Rwanda
- Yorkshire Proper: Ideal if you wanted to create a tea that have a lovely flavour but was also based on a quality tea flavour.
Recently, these two new teas have been added to the Australian range:
Yorkshire Tea – Biscuit
Ideal for having after a meal when you’d like something a little sweet without the sugar hit. Created for the after-lunch lull. But, the exact biscuit is a secret.
Yorkshire Tea – Toast and Jam
Ideal for the morning – The company created a couple of different teas based on popular breakfast foods. The most popular winner was toast and jam.
How to Make a Perfect Cup of Tea
I’m sure you all know how to make a perfect cup of tea:
- Make sure your tea bag is lying flat in the cup – so the flavour is fully formed.
- Brew the water at 100% for black tea.
- Use freshly drawn water – as it has more oxygen!
- Don’t boil the water more than once.
- Boil the water directly onto the teabag.
- Give it a little stir with a teaspoon….
- Brew it for 5 minutes.
- Dangle the teabag over the cup and squeeze the teabag against the side of the mug with your teaspoon.
- THEN add the milk and/or sweetener.
Suzy Garraghan, Yorkshire Tea’s Leading Tea Expert and Senior Buyer, recommends, “If you’d rather a teapot for some extra brew, make sure you keep everything toasty. Tea likes hot water, but a chilly teapot cools things down. So, swirl a little boiling water around the empty pot first. …..Add three tea bags to a regular teapot or one tea bag to a mini teapot. Pour the hot water in and stir a bit.”
Yorkshire Tea’s Tea Innovation Manager, Kate Halloran said, “With our specialty brews, we set out to create the perfect combination of flavours to provide a proper pick me up in a mug, They’re for people who want that little something extra – whatever time of day, and we hope they’ll put a spring in the step of Aussie tea drinkers!”
Did you know 88% of Australians enjoy their tea more when they drink from a favourite cup or mug?
Did you know 15% of Aussie tea drinkers still prefer to use a cup and saucer over a mug?
My favourite cup is any with my branded photo on it. Or whatever is clean.
Tea drinks like to have breakfast, biscuits, or cake with their tea. However, you like your tea, you might like to consider trying a new flavour next time.
About Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire Tea is produced by Taylors of Harrogate, a Harrogate-based family business devoted to the craft of outstanding tea and coffee since 1886. At Yorkshire Tea, everything’s ‘done proper’ – we taste thousands of teas to maintain our iconic blend, building strong relationships with the world’s top tea estates and doing business in a way that respects people and planet. For more information visit www.yorkshiretea.com.au
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