Fine Vietnamese Teas
Why Vietnamese teas? Why Vietnamese Oolong teas? The answer is simple: In all the tasting and testing we have done for teas from many of the top producing countries, like China and Taiwan, we have found that large-scale production demands from the commercial market and other factors seem to have interfered with the art of tea production in a similar way to how trade interference and commercial demands affected the coffees in regions like South America. In other words, "they don't make it like they used to!"
The small-tucked-away tea industry of Vietnam seems to just go one better every time on all the teas we have found there - Green, Blooming Silver Needle, and now Oolong. If you love tea, you really want to try and compare Vietnamese tea with your favorites.
What can we say? It's Just Better!
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Tam Chau Flower Oolong
This top-quality Oolong tea, similar to Formosa's Oolong 18, begins as tightly-folded tea buds, each containing two or three leaves. When brewed, they unfold, origami-like, into charming tea flowers floating in a lovely jade-green cup.
This lightly-fermented Oolong has a fresher, more delicate taste than most Oolongs, and will appeal both to lovers of Oolong and those who usually prefer classic green tea. Its flavor and aroma develop in your mouth to give three distinct experiences: the initial sip, then the mouth-filling flavor, and finally the lovely and persistent aftertaste.
Tam Chau Oolong Tea Bags
Our first oolong tea that comes in teabags! This oolong tea is robust and smooth, moderately aged for an amber-colored cup. This is as close as possible to the flavor of a premium loose-leaf tea, with the convenience and portability of a teabag. It's attractively packaged in its foil-imprinted box, making it an excellent gift.
Tam Chau Organic Oolong Tea Bags
Certified organic oolong tea! This Vietnamese-style oolong is lightly "oolonged" just enough to soften and smooth the flavor of the delicate green tea. It produces a golden-colored brew with a complex aroma. It's also in teabags for added convenience.
Oolong Tea Combo
This combo pack lets you try all three of our premium Vietnamese Oolong teas for 40% off the combined retail price! If you're curious about Oolong, even if you think Oolong isn't your favorite, we encourage you to try this selection. Vietnamese-style Oolong is very different from the usual Chinese-style: It is less-processed, for a fresher taste, lighter color, and delicate fragrance, while still offering the richness of flavor characteristic of fine Oolong. This selection of teas offers an ultra-premium Flower Oolong in a vacuum-packed bag for special occasions, a box of regular Oolong teabags for everyday convenience, and a bag of organic Oolong teabags, too.
Tam Chau Jasmine Green Tea
This elegant green tea comes in a vacuum foil bag inside an attractive box. As with all our teas, it is minimally-processed and full of fresh green tea goodness. Its jasmine scent comes from real jasmine petals, which provides a subtle and natural aroma and lightly sweet flavor. The whole, tiny tea leaves' flavor is complex and rich while lightly acidic.
Tam Chau Classic Green Tea
This elegant green tea comes in a vacuum foil bag inside an attractive box. As with all our teas, it is minimally-processed and full of fresh green tea goodness. The premium-quality baby tea leaves have a delicate flavor and are very aromatic and smooth.
Tam Chau Green Tea Bags
Our first green tea that comes in teabags! Now, enjoy the taste of Vietnamese tea with the convenience of a teabag. This tea is a slightly different blend from the whole-leaf Tam Chau tea, made from a more mature leaf for a more robust flavor and darker color.
Tam Chau Jasmine Green Tea Bags
Our first jasmine green tea that comes in teabags! Tam Chau's delicious, pure green tea scented with natural jasmine, in a convenient teabag.
Tra Tien Jasmine Tea
This whole-leaf green tea has been scented with Jasmine flowers, making for a delicate tea with wonderful aroma. This tea takes well to sweetening and also works as a tea to serve with dessert, besides being an excellent tea in its own right. The leaves are slightly less tightly rolled, unfurling attractively in the cup to reveal the shape of the leaves. 75 grams, loose tea.
Tra Tien Lotus Tea
Lotus tea is a rarity in the United States, yet highly valued in Vietnam. This whole leaf tea is scented with the beautiful petals of the lotus flower, and has a rich mouthfeel and fascinating aroma reminiscent of anise. 75 grams, loose tea.
Exotic and New: Dragonflower Teas
New Organza Pouch
The ancient traditional craft of hand-sewing white (Silver Needle) tea leaves into decorative shapes originated in China but spread to Vietnam along with many other cultural artifacts. These tight spheres of premium white tea expand in hot water to reveal a beautiful and delicate flower, with a colorful blossom in the center. In Vietnam, these works of art are called Dragonflower Teas. They have other terms of reference worldwide, such as Tea Posies, Display Teas, and Tea Flowers. Silver Needle tea is a special cultivar, classified as a white tea, but with a stronger flavor than most white tea, and no bitterness.
Dragonflower Tea: Jasmine Phoenix
The Jasmine Phoenix Dragonflower contains a sunny orange Lily
blossom with a cluster of real white Jasmine flowers extending
upwards. The Silver Needle tea is delicate with a full flavor
but no bitterness, and a gentle Jasmine scent from the flower.
Each Jasmine Phoenix Dragonflower can brew 3 pots of tea, or about
16-20 cups of tea. Three Dragonflowers in a re-usable display
jar are available.
Fully bloomed Dragonflower
Ruby Rosebud Tea
This rare tea is pure miniature rosebuds. The deep color and perfect, shapely buds set this tea apart from other
rose teas. Its beauty makes it an excellent gift, and it looks lovely in its glass jar. Perfect for
the lovely lady in your life - lasts longer than a rose bouquet and you can drink it, too!
35 grams in a re-usable display jar.
Rose Fruity Milk Tea
This novelty from Taiwan is made from mellow black tea, rose petals
and rosehips ("rose fruit"). Each extra-large teabag also contains
just the right amount of sugar and non-dairy creamer to create
a delicate and unusual pleasure drink. The taste and aroma is
exactly what you'd expect from the name: fruity, rosy, sweet and
creamy. The black tea leaves are mild, yet not overwhelmed by
the other flavors. After a cup of rose milk tea, even the dreariest
day looks beautiful. It's delicious iced, too.
Box of 12 teabags.
Allergy note: This tea contains
no lactose but the creamer does contain milk protein (casein).
No ingredients are from China.
Artichoke Tea
Delicious, caffeine-free Artichoke tea is made from the whole Artichoke plant, whose natural sweetness is sometimes enhanced with Sweetgrass. This traditional herbal tea is a Vietnamese favorite, and has a smooth and naturally sweet flavor, rich mouthfeel, and surprising aroma reminiscent of vanilla or milk chocolate. It requires no sweetener, and it is used as a healthful drink in southeast Asia, where it is believed to promote liver functioning, via a mild detox and slight diuretic effect.
We find that which brand of artichoke tea is best is a personal opinion. Our taste-testers generally strongly prefer one or the other, and the number of fans is evenly split. So, since the teas are relatively inexpensive, you may wish to try both of them to find your true favorite.
Tam Chau Artichoke Tea
This 100% artichoke tea is subtle and has a strong initial rush of flavor, using flower, stem and root of the artichoke plant. Tea bags are individually wrapped for freshness.
Tam Chau produces two varieties of artichoke tea: Regular and Super. The Regular Artichoke tea is darker, less sweet, and more chocolatey. Super Artichoke is lighter, sweeter and more aromatic.
