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No. 14

Chinese Keemun - Loose Leaf Tea

Sale price£4.00
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The godfather of Chinese breakfast teas, this single-origin Keemun offers smooth malty, cacao notes with a hint of spice for a luxurious start to your day

Format
size:50g Pack

Delivery Info

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UK Christmas Delivery cut-off dates

Standard Delivery

Royal Mail

2pm Friday 20th December

UK Tracked

DPD

Midnight Sunday 22nd December

Next Working-Day

DPD

2pm Monday 23rd December

Saturday

DPD

2pm Friday 20th December

International Standard Economy cut-off dates

All dispatched via Royal Mail, delivered by postal service of destination country

All non-European destinations (except South Africa, Canada, Middle and Far East and USA)

2pm Wednesday 9th October

Hong Kong, Middle and Far East, Singapore and South Africa

2pm Monday 21st October

Canada and USA

2pm Wednesday 6th November

Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Turkey and Western Europe

2pm Monday 2nd December

Other International Shipping cut-off dates 

UPS

2pm Friday 13th December

Fedex

2pm Friday 13th December

 

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UK deliveries

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Method

Cost

Carrier

Transit time

Standard

£3.50, Free - over £40

Royal Mail

2-5 days, Tracked

DPD Tracked

£6.50 Free - over £100

DPD

1-3 days, Tracked

Next-Working-Day

£9.95

DPD

Orders placed before 2pm, Dispatched Monday - Friday, Next Working Day, Tracked

Saturday

£15.00

DPD

Orders placed before 2pm, Saturday delivery, Tracked

Orders are processed and dispatched Monday-Friday. 

*Most delivery will be made within the usual time-frame, but some areas and services may experience delays. 

*Please note estimated transit time is based on business days and does not include weekends or holidays. 

European deliveries

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Method

Cost

Carrier

Transit time

Standard

From £5.50

Royal Mail

3-7 days, up to 21*, Not Tracked (Offered for orders less than £50 only)

Economy

From £5.50

Royal Mail

3-7 days, up to 21*, Not Tracked (Offered for orders less than £50 only)

Tracked

From £15.95

Fedex / UPS

3-5 days, up to 8*, Tracked

*Most deliveries will be made within the usual time-frame, but some areas and services may experience delays.

*Please note estimated transit time is based on business days and does not include weekends or holidays. 

 

Rest of the World


Method

Cost

Carrier

Transit time

Standard

From £4.00

Royal Mail

8-15 days, up to 30*, Not Tracked (Offered for orders less than £50 only)

USA tracked

From £15.00

UPS

2-3 days, up to 7*, Tracked

ROW Tracked

From £18.95

UPS

1-5 days, up to 5*, Tracked


*Most delivery will be made within the usual time-frame, but some areas and services may experience delays.

*Please note estimated transit time is based on business days and does not include weekends or holidays. 

International Buyers (Including EU) – Please Note:

Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be before buying.

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Bold and luxurious, our single origin Keemun loose-leaf black tea from China has a dried fruit and malty aroma and complex characters with an alluring, slight hint of cacao and caramel. Robust in flavour, it tastes of honey and oak, with a smooth mouthfeel that makes it a luxurious alternative to a regular breakfast tea.

With its strong, black wiry leaves and light amber infusion, this single-origin summer flush is a premium, special high-grade version of Keemun black tea that brings deliciously refined luxury to the daily ritual of tea making. The wonderful aroma of this exceptional Chinese loose-leaf black tea is enhanced by adding a splash of milk, which brings out its extraordinary, soft floral notes. Although perfect as a breakfast brew, this refreshing tea can be enjoyed at any time of day.

Requiring great skill to produce, Keemun is the most famous Chinese black tea, known in China as 'Qimen', Keemun is made from the Chinese variety of the tea plant, Camellia Sinensis. Its name stems from its place of origin, Qimen County in China's Anhui province, located between the Yellow Mountains and the Yangtze River. Keemun tea undergoes an unusually slow process of withering and oxidation during production, which creates the nuanced characters and non-astringent flavour that has won it generations of fans as a great breakfast tea.

Keemun was first produced in the late 1800s. At the time, China was primarily exporting green teas, and Keemun's invention was an attempt to compete with the black teas produced in India. Keemun tea quickly became popular in the West and is used as one of the key components of English breakfast tea blends, partly for its flavour and partly for its high caffeine content.

Like all black teas, this smooth Chinese Keemun tea comes with all the benefits of being packed with polyphenols, the antioxidant plant compounds that have been linked to everything from lowering cholesterol and the risk of heart disease to helping improve gut health. If you want to make it a vegan tea, simply serve it black.

Alternatives to this smooth breakfast tea

For more full-flavoured breakfast brews, try our Margaret's Hope Darjeeling or Assam Breakfast or Assam Manjushree all of which are excellent breakfast teas. For something another Chinese black tea, we recommend our Tarry Lapsang Souchong, a strong, smoked tea with an amber infusion with tobacco and burnt caramel notes.

There's more to morning tea than a classic English breakfast or Earl Grey. For the full range of varieties to start your day, check out the range of Breakfast Teas available in our Tea Shop.

Region

Qimen, Anhui Region, China

Keemun, also known as "Qimen" in China, is a celebrated black tea made from the Chinese variety of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis sinensis. Named after its place of origin, Qimen County, in Anhui Province, this tea is cultivated in an area located between the Yellow Mountains and the Yangtze River in eastern China. The region's specific climate and fertile soil contribute to the distinctive flavour profile of Keemun tea, which is highly prized for its smooth, aromatic taste, with subtle fruity and floral notes.

Qimen's unique geographical setting, with its moderate elevation and consistent moisture from surrounding waterways, creates ideal conditions for producing high-quality tea. The tea leaves are harvested with great care, and traditional processing techniques are used to ensure Keemun's distinctive quality and character are preserved. Often used in blends, including classic English Breakfast, Keemun is also appreciated on its own for its balanced and delicate flavour. The combination of Qimen County's natural environment and centuries of tea-making expertise has earned Keemun its reputation as one of the finest black teas from China, admired by tea connoisseurs worldwide.

3g - 4g

200ml

100°C

3 - 5mins