Flavoured Tea

Characteristics

Flavoured teas are processed black, green or oolong teas which are then blended with additional flavourings. A wide range of spices, herbs and flower petals are used to produce a large variety of flavoured teas. Fruit flavoured teas are generally made by blending the fruit's essential oils with the processed tea.

Herbal infusions, dried fruit infusions and flower tisanes are often incorrectly labelled as herbal teas. When herbal infusions etc, contain no processed tea, they are not teas, they are not herbal teas and they should not be confused with flavoured teas.

Flavoured Black Tea

Blenders in Europe, the seat of black flavoured tea technology, mix flavours and teas in machines which control temperature and humidity. Some teas are flavoured just two or three times, but the best receive five or six repetitions then refired. Dried blossoms are added for increased charm to its appearance.

Flavoured Green Tea

Ever since tea was discovered, the Chinese have been adding flavourings to their tea, either by blending flowers or fruits with the processed leaf, or by adding extra ingredients to the boiling water, or to the brew itself.

Some China teas have a natural flavour of orchards or flowers which grow wild among the tea bushes. Others have the perfume of fruit blossoms that flower among the tea bushes when the new tea buds and leaves are forming.

All teas absorb other flavours and green tea lends itself most readily to scenting.