Holy Mountain Trading Company - Information on Specialty Tea Blends

ea offers more taste profiles than any other beverage in the world. Singularly, a tea and a wine would share most of the taste spectrum. However, when you begin to blend teas, the number of tastes becomes endless.

We have listed a few of our favorites. Blending tea is easy when you begin to understand the characteristics of different teas. Some teas are used for color, others for sweet taste, while another may be used to give a blend a full-bodied liquor. Again, these are just a few of our favorites; there are literally thousands of different combinations available.

Non-clouding Specialty Iced Tea Blends		Irish Breakfast Blends

India Assam FOP	25%	Kalgar, India BOP	70%
China Black FOP	50%	Chester, Ceylon BOP	30%
China Jasmine	25%
		India Assam FOP	60%
China Black FOP	80%	Yunnan	40%
China Jasmine	20%
		Non-blends
China Black FOP	90%	India Assam TGFOP
China Keemun	10%	India Assam GBOP
		Keemun
Non-blends
Flavored OPs (Apricot, Mango, etc.)		Russian Caravan Blends
Kenya
China Black FOP		Ceylon OP	75%
Formosa Choice Oolong		Lapsang Souchong	25%
Formosa Keemun
China Keemun		Vanilla OP	50%
China Black BOP		Lapsang Souchong	50%

English Breakfast Blends		Exotic Blends

Kalgar, India BOP	48%	Earl Grey	25%
Chester, Ceylon BOP	48%	China Jasmine	75%
China Jasmine	4%
		Earl Grey	87%
Chester Ceylon BOP	40%	Lapsang Souchong	13%
Kalgar, India BOP	40%
India Darjeeling	20%	Young Hyson	50%
		Rose Congou	50%
Ceylon OP	25%
India Darjeeling FOP	25%	Rose Congou	50%
China Keemun	50%	China Jasmine	50%

Non-blends
China Keemun
Decaffeinated Black BOP
Yunnan
Kenya

What is the secret to a good tea blend? First, be certain to mix teas of similar leaf size; if a small broken-leafed tea is blended with a large fluffy full-leafed tea, the smaller tea particles will settle to the bottom of the container and the two teas will separate. Finally, mix teas in proportions determined by weight, not by sight alone. This is the secret to consistency in good blended teas.