The Usual13% OffChai
Long afternoons, milk — cardamom, clove, round.
Ingredients
Kenilworth Black tea (Ceylon), cinnamon bark, green cardamom, ginger root, cloves, black pepper
£12.00£10.49 · 50g · approx 40 cups
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THE RITUAL OF THE BREW
Loose leaf tea botanical blends crafted in Lancashire, paired with artisan Yorkshire biscuits and bakes, heritage teaware and botanical candles and soaps for the late afternoon and twilight wind-down.
PopularThe everyday shelf
The cups that keep getting reached for — classic loose leaf teas in 50g pouches, hand-blended and ready to pour.
NewA new range
Four little loose-leaf pours, each one matched to something jammy, chocolatey, lemony or marzipan. 25g pouches, caffeine free, made to sit beside the tin.
ElevensesNewFor sponge and jam — tart hibiscus, rosehip.
Ingredients
Hibiscus flowers, rosehip
£9.49 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewFor a chocolate biscuit — mint, liquorice.
Ingredients
Peppermint leaves, liquorice root
£9.49 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewCuts through the cake — ginger, lemon verbena.
Ingredients
Lemon verbena, ginger root
£9.49 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNew blendPair with Battenberg — Vanilla rooibos, rose petals, hibiscus, marigold, sweet woodruff
Ingredients
Vanilla rooibos, rose petals, hibiscus, marigold petals, sweet woodruff
£12.49 · 50g · approx 40 cups
ElevensesNewFor sticky toffee lovers — sweet honeybush, liquorice, cinnamon.
Ingredients
Honeybush, liquorice root, cinnamon
£9.49 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewWarm ginger and treacle spice, in a tube worth keeping.
Ingredients
Ginger, honeybush, allspice, roasted chicory root, liquorice
£12.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewPeppermint sharp, chamomile soft — Christmas Eve, poured pale gold.
Ingredients
Chamomile, peppermint, blue mallow
£12.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewOrange peel, cinnamon and clove — the smell of a Christmas market.
Ingredients
Rooibos, orange peel, cinnamon, hibiscus, cloves, star anise
£12.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
Black tube packaging
Three of our favourite blends in 50g matte black tubes — weighty in the hand, cream-labelled and ready to hand over without a scrap of wrapping paper. £15 each.

Brisk, malty and threaded with pine smoke.
Ingredients
Kenilworth Black Ceylon, Smoky Lapsang Souchong
£15.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups

Chose the sofa — warm, gentle, softly spiced.
Ingredients
Chamomile flowers, Apple pieces, Cinnamon, Rose petals, Orange peel
£15.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups

Lavender and rose over a soft rooibos base — the evening pour.
Ingredients
Rooibos, lavender, lemon verbena, orange peel, rose petals
£15.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups
For gifting or exploring
A surprise selection of loose leaf and botanical blends, delivered once a month. Each box holds at least 125g of tea — a mix of sizes, styles, caffeinated and caffeine-free. The contents change every month, so every delivery is a new discovery.
Choose one month for £35, or three months for £94.50 and save 10%. Paid upfront, no ongoing subscription — boxes dispatch on the 2nd of each month with free UK delivery.
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Shop by intention
Four ranges, four moods. Pick the one that fits the week ahead.

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The practice
A kettle. A pinch of something dried. A few minutes held aside. We curate the leaves and botanicals — what you brew with them is yours.

Ritual
A cup is a pause you give yourself. Boil. Measure. Steep. The ritual asks little and returns more than it asks.

Folk lore
Before the supermarket aisle there was the cottage door. Blends carried the names of what they were for — a beginning, an ending, an hour of the day.

Botanicals
Whole leaf teas and whole botanicals, sourced for origin and flavour. No flavourings, no fillers. The blending is left to you.

The blender's bench
Blending tea at home was once a domestic art — a kitchen practice held quietly through generations. We've put it back within reach.
We curate the whole leaf teas and botanicals around themes like bedtime, fireside and slow morning. You brew the whole box as one blend, or experiment with combinations of your own.
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In person
We take the cabinet on the road. Brass scales, dark wicker baskets brimming with loose leaf, small glass jars of botanicals lined up like an old apothecary — and the kettle always on.
Come and lift a lid, sniff the jars, and have a blend weighed out by hand. The full shelf, under canvas, at craft markets across the country.
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