Product Description

Our family business has a very clear goal – to work with the very best quality suppliers at home and overseas. We believe that quality and trading fairly go hand in hand. It’s only by forging strong trading relationships with the growers, and ensuring that we pay them premium prices, that we can ensure a continued supply of the best quality teas and coffees. Our close ties with tea and coffee growing communities across Africa, Asia, Central and South America has been the driving force behind the creation of a robust Sustainable Sourcing Programme within our company. We balance our emotional, instinctive, ‘gut feel’ for great quality with realistic, practical measures which help ensure that our tea and coffee is being grown responsibly, and that we buy from well-run tea gardens and coffee farms. People often ask us if Yorkshire Tea is grown on Ilkley Moor! Whilst we do have a few tea bushes growing in our tropical greenhouse here in Harrogate, Yorkshire Tea is actually a carefully balanced blend of over thirty specially selected teas from three of the world’s best tea growing regions – Africa, India and Sri Lanka. Our small team of Tea Buyers travel around the world visiting tea gardens during the peak growing seasons. By visiting when the tea leaves are still on the bush, they can be sure of buying the pick of the crop for our blends. We even have our own ‘Rewarding Quality Award’ to encourage growers to reserve their best teas for us.

Ingredients

Black Tea

Manufacturer Contact Information

Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7LD.Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7LD.

The recipe is a secret as with all great recipes (including my cheesecake one!) but to get a tea bag this good the manufacturers have to buy top quality tea. Take Yorkshire Gold, their `best ever' brew. It's a bright, luxurious cup with a smooth malty flavour that comes from a blend of teas from the top ten tea gardens in the world, particularly those in Assam, Kenya and Rwanda. It's said that from tea garden to table your tea has been tasted/tested 8 times along the way to ensure quality!

Yorkshire tea is also do a tea bag for hard water areas, a decafe and of course Yorkshire Gold!

How to make a proper brew - In a pot -

Run the tap a little so the water is nicely aerated. Use water that has boiled just once - any more than that and the level of oxygen in the water is reduced and your tea can taste a bit `flat'.

Warm the teapot first by swilling boiling water around inside it, then warm the cups with the water from the teapot. For a four-cup pot, use two teabags. For loose tea, use one teaspoon per person and one for the pot. Add freshly boiled water to the pot, stir and leave to brew for 4-5 minutes depending on how strong you like it.