Hey Tea Lovers! We are partnering with Wanderlust Aust/NZ bringing our tea to the Wanderlust 108 event in Sydney this Saturday the 8th of April. Find us in the True North Cafe brewing up some of our finest organic teas. As well we will be giving away heaps of free samples! 

Cant wait to see you there. 

Get your tickets https://wanderlust.com/108-events/sydney/ 

When we want something sweet we reach for Alter Eco and their Organic, GMO free and Fair Trade Chocolate. We find a nice strong cup of English Breakfast works a treat, with this treat. To celebrate, we will be including a complimentary bar of chocolate with all overs over the Easter Long Weekend, Until April the 18th.

The Organic Tea Project  x  Sydney Tea Festival 2017

With over seventy passionate tea artisans and five thousand thirsty tea lovers, it was sure to be an amazing day for tea. This was our third year being part of this amazing event and once again it did not disappoint.

The Sydney Tea Festival is an annual event held in August at Carriageworks. Featuring a tea market where you can sample a wide range of teas from the most delicate white teas to an intensely spicy sticky masala chai that coats your entire pallet with its warm embrace (of course talking about our Sticky Chai). As well as Tea Workshops and Tea Talks, all designed to educate and inform you about tea culture, tradition, and history. You could say it is Sydney's biggest tea party. 

(photo: Madeye Photography)

As you enter you receive a small festival cup (that you get to take home with you) that is used throughout the day to sample the wide variety of tea available. As you wonder from stall to stall sampling the varying teas you really get to see how many different varieties of tea there are. From bespoke herbal blends to more traditional well-known tea varietals, each taste opens up a new world. For example, you can taste two English breakfast blends that use the same tea plant (Assam for example), but due to craftsmanship and expertise of the blender that tastes completely different. This is why we love tea, it tells a story from the soil to plant to picking to fermentation to blending to packing and shipping, each step influencing the final cup.

(photo: Madeye Photography)

It was such a great day for tea! Thank you to everyone who came and said hello to us at The Organic Tea Project stall. We love sharing our passion for organic tea. It was amazing to get everyone's unique insight on each of our blends. We hope you had as much fun as we did. 

The Team at The Organic Tea Project

The name "English Breakfast" was invented in the 1840's in New York to market Chinese congou tea to the American public.

The Organic Tea Project started small but we remain a company wholly dedicated to offering only the most premium and freshest organic blends.

From the beginning, we committed our efforts to the creation of the best tasting, cleanest and most wholesome organic English Breakfast blend. It’s a mainstay of the tea universe, so we had to get it right.

By fastidiously tasting all our favourite English Breakfast teas from around the world we determined the best balance to offer a most well-rounded blend of flavours.

Our journey took us to wherever the finest organic and fair trade teas in the world are grown. The absolute best? Look in Darjeeling, Assam and Nilgiri.

With the help of Master Tea Blender, Jonny, we determined that the peak English Breakfast blend is a combination of two key teas.

To achieve the multi-dimensional flavour of premium English Breakfast we start from a base of Assam grown leaves, renowned for its robust malty flavour. The second ingredient is high grown Nilgiri tea. Discerning drinkers will recognise its fine flavour liquors.

The combination makes for a sublime balance and you can see it as a rich blend of colour, delivering a tea that is both malty and crisp in taste.

When combined with a splash of milk you can expect a subtle yet energising kick that will set your future standard for English Breakfast from the very first sip.

It took us 28 attempts to find that ideal balanced combination of flavours. When we finally found our malty yet crisp blend it was like unlocking a magic formula and since then we have been dedicated to recreating the perfect breakfast tea after every new harvest through tasting, documenting and more tasting.

It was a long journey to find our breakfast blend and we truly hope you enjoy it as much as we do...