Peacock Teas

Black Teas

Peacock takes great pride in bringing you an extensive range of Black Teas sourced from the World’s best tea gardens.

China Teas

The Chinese tea tradition is the oldest in the world. Black tea originates from China and is considered especially mild and appetizing. In addition to black teas, China also produces green teas, which are predominantly drunk in China, Oolong teas, Jasmines and Pu Erh teas.

Our Chinese black teas are:

Keemun OP a dark cup and a soft taste, low in tannins. Suitable for tea beginners.

Lapsang Souchong The tea originated in the South China province of Fujian. This large leafed tea is rich, syrupy and smoky and makes a delightful blend if you add a little to your usual tea. The tea being fired over pinewoods, grown in the region, causes the smoky taste.

Green Teas

Peacock brings you a range of green teas from the two main producing countries, China and Japan. Unlike black teas, green teas are not fermented making them particularly gentle and wholesome. Colour varies from light green to silvery or dark emerald. The infusion has a light colour. The flavour ranges from mildly astringent to agreeable sweet and aromatic – depending on type and preparation. Green teas are best consumed without milk.

As part of our mission to bring you the most extensive range of teas available in South Africa, our tea tasters have searched the World to find those rare or unusual teas not normally available. We are proud to be able to bring you the following:

Oolongs

The fermentation process of Oolong teas is not complete hence they only partly fermented. As a result the tea has a gorgeous flavour, which optically and taste wise lie between black and green teas. The degree of fermentation is decided upon by the tea estate, and traditionally will be between 30 and 70 percent, thus not all Oolongs are the same. Our tea tasters have sourced two teas that reflect the true nature and flavour of a superior Oolong.

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White Teas

White teas are in fact a green tea, however they are picked why the bud is at its youngest, unopened and covered in a silvery down, often at night before the morning sun opens the bud. After picking the bud and leave are wilted in moderate sunlight, heated and then air-dried again. These teas are the noble and mild varieties in the world.

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Tea Flowers

Flowering tea is a tea, which is packaged, in a tightly furled ball, which uncurls when the tea is placed in hot water, revealing a flower or fanciful scene created by the artfully arranged tealeaves. Most flowering teas are made with black, green, or oolong tea, and many of them include dried flowers to add color to the floral arrangement when it “blooms” in the teapot. Although you might think it was an ancient tradition, given the Asian love for both tea and flowers, flowering tea appears to be a development of the 1980s. It seems to have originated in China, and it became very popular in the West in the early 2000s, around the same time that Asian-style foods and décor also started to become very trendy. Chinese tea companies produce a range of flowering teas, including flowers, which are assembled and sewn by hand by artisans.

You may hear flowering tea referred to as performance tea, blooming tea, or decorative tea, referencing the beauty of the flower as it unfurls. Most people prefer to brew flowering tea in glass teapots or teapots made from other clear materials so that they can see the flower clearly. It can also be brewed in large clear or white cups, although most flowering teas are designed to provide multiple servings, so a single cup could end up being too strong.

Most flowering teas develop into fanciful flower shapes when they are brewed, with the tea forming the “leaves,” and dried flowers unfurling inside. It is also possible to create delicate little sceneswith tea, when someone who is skilled with flowering teas, so the tea might unfurl to reveal a sailing ship or another decorative object handles the tea. After flowering tea has been brewed, it can usually withstand two to three additional brewing, although the flavour may weaken. Some flowering teas also become bitter when they are steeped repeatedly.

Other Flowering teas are; Pagoda – an elegant black Yunnan tea that is tied by hand into a Pagoda shape, and, White Bow Organic – a rare White tea to shaped by hand and to which Lily and Jasmine blossoms are added.

Peacock’s Blended Teas

Our experienced Tea Tasters have for the past forty years been hard at work developing the finest tea blends for your satisfaction. We bring you the following:

Peacock Traditional Blend

This blend is a treasure for connoisseurs, produced to a traditional recipe. The blend only uses the highest quality leave tea.

PRINCE OF WALES
A delightful blend of China and African tea. Delicate taste and light in colour. SOUTH AFRICAN & ZIMBABWE Teas from Southern Africa are known as Ceylon type teas and have the same characteristics as tea from Sri Lanka. They sometimes lack the body and flavour of Ceylon tea due to soil conditions and the lower African rainfall.

Peacock’s Flavoured & Herbal Teas

All ingredients from organic cultivation.

Flavoured Green Teas

Herbal Teas

Organic Ayuvitalian Tea

The fundamental aim of ayurveda is to bring your body and soul as closely as possible into balance. Inner peace and stability generate the required forces to conquer the various challenges of life. Our organic teas are based on this ayurvedic doctrine. Teas from controlled organic cultivation are produced in accordance with the directives of the EU organic regulation 834/2007. The code number of the control body is DE-001.

To make Fruit Infusions
Use a Teapot with an infuser, add one teaspoon of infusion per cup.
Boil water (250ml per cup) and pour into teapot, allow to seep for 7/8 minutes, add Sugar if required.