Informal Blog — Growing & Making
New Tea Cups
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Our second batch of tea cups are finally finished and available online! Each cup is carefully handmade in-house by our resident master potter Tim Donaldson. After being fired in the kiln once, the cups are then individually dip glazed before being fired again up to 1200 degrees celsius. Here's...
2013 Spring Green Tea
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As we wait for our new season green tea to arrive, we thought it might be a good time to have a look at what makes our Pure Green tea oh so special. We've looked at how our organic green tea is grown, and around this time last year we...
Summer
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Sheesh, what a busy couple of months it's been! We've had our heads down and working hard through spring and now (as usual) we have some great secretive things in the pipeline! For now though, I'm stoked to announce that we've fired up pottery production today and the first of...
Earl Grey — The Journey Begins
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Earl Grey has always been a blend which possesses a special ability to stir up strong opinions. You either love it or hate it. You could say that we have an equally strong opinion on the matter too. We resent the fact that today's Earl Greys are poorly reproduced with...
Tea Cups Are Here
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They say that good things take time. And these tea cups took a long time so they must be good! We announced about 9 months ago that we were working on a special range of tea cups (handmade by us) and now we are finally able to unveil them! Black...