Green Tea for Organic Lovers Tea Collection.

Green organic loose tea: we have chosen four of our best.

Korea Jeoncha Green Organic. This is a sencha style, second flush tea picked in June. It has a long, dark green leaf which is steamed and pressed flat. In the cup it produces a strikingly gorgeous, emerald green infusion which is fresh and bright on the palate with a lovely smooth vegetal character. Its aroma is one of fresh spring greens. Infuse for two minutes with freshly boiled water that has cooled for a couple of minutes.

Chun Mee Organic. A light, richly fragrant China green tea. This organic 'precious eyebrow' tea has a slightly curved leaf which gives it its name. The shape of the grey-green leaf is achieved by being rolled by hand at the right temperature for the right length of time. Yellow-green in the cup, Chun Mee organic is a popular, aromatic green tea that you cannot fail to love. Easy-drinking and refreshing, it is light, smooth and flavoursome, not sweet but distinctly floral. Use one teaspoon per cup with freshly drawn and boiled water that has cooled to around 80 C. and infuse for three minutes.

Japanese Sencha Uchiyama. This superior emerald green steamed tea is from the Uchiyama region of Japan and is an early spring picking. It produces a sparkling golden infusion with a smooth, appetising grassiness and a flowery aroma. Infuse for two minutes with water that has come well off the boil to around 80 degrees C. Can be infused several times. Sencha was developed in Japan by intellectuals keen to create a simpler method of drinking and appreciating tea compared with the rigidity of the Tea Ceremony where powdered tea was used. It follows the approach taken by the Chinese with their Yixing teapots, using instead an equally simple porcelain teapot with projecting handle. The tea was then drunk from a straight-sided chawan teacup.

Darjeeling Organic Green Risheehat. An organic, fresh green looking tea with an equally fresh aroma with noticeable tip. In the cup Risheehat Green is aromatic, complexly forresty with Darjeeling muscatel character. It has well balanced astringency. Brew for three minutes.