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• Blooming Tea

  blooming tea and flowering tea

  Organic blooming teas are the news, at parties or even in the movie Marie Antoinette as they are quickly catching on as the latest craze. Super fine tea and floral ingredients are crafted and tied into a beautiful tea bundle that blooms into a gorgeous display right before your eyes during steeping. It’s hard to imagine the control and bouquet that these tea artists can create with blooming teas. Make sure to use a large, clear pitcher for steeping so you can enjoy the beauty of blooming tea along with this very healthy white tea. 

  Buy Blooming Tea

  California Tea House has an exciting collection of blooming teas, also known as tea flowers or flowering teas, that we are always adding to. Our current list all use our fine Silver Needle white tea as the base tea structure and bundles into a beautiful blooming flower with tedious craftsman precision. If you haven't seen or tried a blooming tea before, it's a must.
• White Tea

  Organic White tea, a specialty of the Chinese province Fujian, is from the young, untreated and delicate loose leaf white tea leaf from the common tea shrub Camellia sinensis as well as a number of other tea cultivars such as 'Da Bai', 'Xiao Bai', 'Narcissus' and 'Chaicha'.  The best organic white tea sometimes contains buds along with the leaves which are known to have lower caffeine levels than older or fermented leaves.  These tea buds, like in our award winning Silver Needle and Organic White Peony tea, are what give the organic white tea its smooth, pure character. 
  
  You don’t want to steep white tea too long. Its mild flavor may make you want to push the steep time, but white tea is meant to be soft and smooth. If this is your first time to buy white tea, the best way to learn the varieties and range of flavor is to try our White Tea Flight. 

• Organic Green Tea

  Organic Green tea

  , an unfermented tea, is made solely with the leaves of Camellia sinensis that have undergone minimal oxidation during processing. This limited processing to the leaf allows maximum nutrients and health boosting elements in the leaf to end up in your cup of tea. 
  

  Buy the best loose leaf green tea:

  Loose leaf green teas are as varied and unique as wines, from Gunpowder green tea to Matcha.  Their individuality depends on the growing region, the season's weather, time of harvest and type of process.  Let California Tea House walk you through the fields of the finest green teas in the world. If this is your first time to buy organic green tea try our exclusive Green tea flight.
• Oolong Tea

  What is Oolong Tea?  Organic Oolong Tea is a traditional Chinese tea from the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. It has a mid-range of oxidation, falling between typical green and black teas, which helps organic Oolong tea have the best of both worlds. Loose leaf Oolong tea comes from a careful hand selection of the absolute finest Oolong leaves available anywhere.
  
  There's an old Chinese story to explain the name of “Oolong” tea. The story involves a tea craftsman named Wu Long who accidentally discovered oolong tea when he was distracted and started following a beautiful deer after a hard day's tea-picking.By the time he remembered about the organic Oolong tea it had already started to oxidize. We hope our high grade Oolong tea and Big Red Robe Oolong tea can captivate you and help you forget your day's worries, just like the deer of Wu Long!
  
  Here at California Tea House we call Big Red Robe Oolong tea and our other Oolong tea the vanity tea as it is known to help promote weight loss and clear skin. Buy organic Oolong tea with confidence!
  
  

• Rooibos Tea

  Rooibos, which is Afrikaans for 'red bush', comes from the amazing health boosting plant Aspalathus linearis.  Organic Rooibos and Honeybush are becoming wildly popular with health conscience Americans due to their super high antioxidant levels.  In its native land, South Africa, it is common to drink organic Rooibos tea with milk and sugar, but is also served 'straight up' as Rooibos is naturally sweet.  The fine grade Rooibos that we use here at California Tea House consists of almost all leafs, no stems, which creates a more flavorful and healthy cup. 
  
  Like black tea, organic Rooibos tea pairs well with preserved fruit, flowers and spices, and since Rooibos is naturally sweet, we like to create unique dessert tea blends with our organic Rooibos tea.  There’s nothing like drinking your dessert after a nice dinner, knowing you’re aiding in digestion, boosting your immune system and enjoying flavors as good or better than the most decadent of desserts. You can get all this in a caffeine free magical tea called Rooibos! If this is your first time to buy organic Rooibos tea you should try our Rooibos tea flight.

• Black Tea

  Organic Black tea is the most fermented, or oxidized, of all teas giving it fuller flavor, color and caffeine. Loose leaf Organic Black tea is typically made from the Camellia sinensis and the larger leafed Camellia sinesis 'Assamica' tea plants.  In China and Japan black tea is known as "crimson tea" (hóngchá); probably a more accurate description of the actual tea color which is even used in some garment dyes due to its natural red appearance.  The name black tea is more appropriate for the color of the oxidized leaves prior to brewing.
  
  Organic Black tea pairs well with fruits and spices, and therefore is a perfect candidate for some of our delicious custom tea blends such as Mango Preserves and a twist on the classic black tea from England, Vanilla Crème Earl Grey.  If this is your first time to buy organic black tea you should try our black tea flight.

• Herbal Tea

  The actual word tea describes a beverage created from seeping the leafs of the Camellia sinensis plant and its varieties in hot or boiling water.  After centuries of its use as a recreational, religious and medical drink, the art and practice of using leaves to flavor and enhance water has been dedicated to this method regardless of the form and types of plant species that are used including organic herbal tea.  In modern society, the use of herbs such as lavender, mint, Rosemary, Rooibos, Honeybush, Sage, Chamomile, other herbs, fruits and/or spices heated to flavor and enhance water has become known as organic herbal teas.  California Tea House tries to use organic herbal tea ingredients which require growers to follow strict guidelines of seeding, environmental, soil, fertilizer, solar, irrigation, harvesting, storing and even trading practices.  These strict guidelines ensure that our herbal teas not only are brought to you with the finest ingredients and care, but also that growth and production of these herbal teas have been sensitive to the environment and take measures to ensure it is enjoyed for generations to come.
  
  

• teaware

  Our teaware collection is just getting started, and we plan to add to it slowly with carefully selected tea cups, tea kettles and other tea steeping necessiTeas like our award winning Sleek Steep. Find perfect tea gifts and pick up tea gift certificates. 

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• Tea Club

  Our tea of the month club makes buying tea easy and affordable by letting us pick the the season's finest loose tea and deliver it every month with free shipping.  Join the Tea Club today.