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Happy International Tea Day!

As the sun rises over the frost-kissed landscapes of Auckland, painting the sky with hues of hope and warmth, I find myself reflecting on the bond that unites us - our shared love for tea. On this International Tea Day, I want to extend my heartfelt wishes from our tea family to yours. May your cups always be filled with the finest brews, and our hearts with warmth and love. Here's to many more moments of peace, reflection, and connection over our shared cups of tea....

Springtime Tea Party

Spring; a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can be. As each year goes by, we make memories, experiences, mistakes, and all the highs and lows climax towards Spring. The new beginning of our lives. The season of remembering the past year and rebirthing oneself - blossoming into a field of beauty in our lives. The very first plucking of the tea planter's harvest season, the First Flush, represents the delicate nature of this fresh start of Spring. Taken from the youngest and most tender part...

Happy Queen's Birthday

This weekend, New Zealand celebrates HRH Queen Elizabeth II's 95th Birthday.  Have you ever wondered how 'Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor' prefers her tea? In an interview in 2020 with Royal Butler Grant Harold, he shared that the Queen can’t resist her favourite cuppa, and it’s a routine. The Queen is an Assam and Earl Grey fan. Shhh... there is a secret in it too!! It has been said that HRH loves her High Tea ritual served in bone china with an Earl Grey and sometimes alternates with...

Winter Tea

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MEDIA - Nourish Magazine

Her forefathers were tea planters in India, and as a teenager she boarded at a school surrounded by tea plantations.With a career in hospitality management, Shai has lived and worked around the world, from Paris and Vienna to Geneva and Singapore.  But when a Waikato lad stole her heart she found herself living in Hamilton with a young family and it seemed the perfect opportunity to pursue her passion for tea.Shai has spent several years building her knowledge of tea.  A certificate in...

COVID 19

BOLU® tea is committed to caring for the health and well-being of our worldwide partners and customers and playing a constructive role in supporting local health officials and government about the latest decisions being made by COVID-19, Ministry of Health New Zealand....

MEDIA - Chinese Herald

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Why is there so much hype & hullabaloo about Tea bags?

This teabag question has been covered by many experts and there is so much literature out there about the harmful substances that most mass produced teabags are made out of. Not withstanding that there are some that are made from cotton or even manilla hemp, most teabags that are sold in NZ Supermarkets are questionable. In my view should be taken out of the shelves altogether.In my eyes, if I were to logically weigh out the reasoning behind not using teabag tea's, here is one reason- one need...

Importance of Water

Every tea vendor speaks of the best brew comes with the freshest water...Extremely right! However, my customers told me an interesting phenomena which I took for granted. When I was in Christchurch, a beautiful mom and daughter came to our stand and told us of how their father and dad loved his tea or chai whilst visiting India from the street vendors of Mumbai. I smiled and told them that two things were different and missing in New Zealand vs India...Mostly diluted Buffalo Milk and Hygienefu...

Radio Live - Home & Garden with Tony Murrell & Helen

Generic question but there's always room for ones interpretation. My reasoning is simple...keep it simple...New Zealand has good tap water (although Councils are often talking about air and water quality) and most people do not have access to a fancy tea brewing machine. They rely on the whistling kettle to boil water. So if that's the average Jill (like my mother), then my advice is: Just before the whistle begins, turn it off.Next pour in your boiled water into your teacups to simply warm the ...

What makes White Tea Superior to others?

Can there be a distinct difference in the variety of teas?Many times people misunderstand how tea varieties are produced. Tea varieties are now market driven and the different varieties are derived from the process of oxidation or fermentation. Funnily, the tea bush is still the same - either Camellia Sinensis Sinensis or Assamica. White tea is the purest variety and has little, if not, no process of fermentation. So when one talks about tea and antioxidant properties or goodness, general...

Starting to Blog - Chai Tea

The hardest thing to do is to pen down thoughts and to start writing a blog. Since this is my first blog experience I thought that the best thing to start upon would be to talk about Chai Tea. Why do people call it Chai Tea? Somehow thanks to the marketing of Chai Lattes, drinking Chai Tea has become so trendy. Expert sociologists have many answers to that, however, my understanding is that I can only claim to know what has been passed down from our household. The term "Chai" literally mean...

MEDIA: Verve Magazine

In a world dominated by the tea bag and synthetic essences, Bolu Tea is an unforgettable, pure and tranquil reprieve.Click on the link to check out the article from Verve magazine... Source: Verve Magazine...