Harney & Sons

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Why we don’t use tea balls…

February 9, 2012

Hello tea people! We just got a new shipment of Ti Quan Yin – Spring Floral tea in the shop. We tasted it against the Traditional Ti Quan Yin that we already had in stock and the difference is amazing. They’re both delicious, but for different reasons. We welcome you to come taste the difference in our tasting room this weekend.

We also took this opportunity to share with you why we prefer to use infuser baskets rather than the more widely known tea ball or tea spoon infusers. For full-leaf tea, the size of the leaves can drastically increase with steeping. We believe that the flavors that emerge when allowing the leaves to freely mix with the water are unbeatable.

Ti Quan Yin – Spring Floral
1 teaspoon of tea – dry vs. steeped

Hope to see you this weekend to taste the difference for yourself!

Mike Harney

Michael Harney has been the tea buyer and blender of Harney & Sons for twenty years. He travels to Asia and meets with tea producers from all the major tea countries, looking for the season's best teas. A graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, he lives with his wife and their three sons in Salisbury, Connecticut.

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