Tea Briefings at the Tea Embassy

On this nice Autumn Saturday, we are featuring three teas you can come and sample for free.

Nutcracker Black Tea is a fun holiday black tea with all the comforting spices to please your senses and get you in the holiday cheer. Black tea blended with apple bits, orange peels, currants, cinnamon, almond flakes, cloves, safflowers, and flavoring.

Drum Mountain Clouds & Mist (Gua Shan Yun Wu) green tea comes from China’s high mountains, offering a light, delicate, sweet melon taste but a complexity that is beautiful. The Clouds & Mist teas are generally darker as a dry leaf, due to the tea plant’s production of more chlorophyll because of the lack of light in the cloudy environment. This is Jonathan’s new favorite green tea!

Savannah Rooibos is a great herbal blend with rich flavors of cocoa pieces, almond bits, and chocolate-rum flavoring. During these cool months, this makes a great dessert drink with sweetener and whipped cream on top!

Most are probably recovering from overeating at Thanksgiving, so come and relax and enjoy the teas we have on sample today. We are open our normal hours today and tomorrow and will be open Monday through December.

Natela’s Gold: Handmade in the peak of the Spring season, Natela brings this treasured tea to you from the Caucasus Mountains in the country Georgia. This black tea has a sweetness with hints of pine and cedar, making it a wonderful tea for afternoon or evening. Enjoy it while supplies last! This tea is similar to the Georgian Beauty tea we also sell, so if you like the Georgian Beauty you’ll also enjoy this one!

Sterling Silver Needles is our newest white tea. The new batch of 2008 white tea is full of the delights of a Yin Zhen or Silver Needle tea from Fujian, China. The leaf buds are delicate and beautiful, full of Bai Hao, or White Down, little fuzzy hairs that cover the buds and offer the sweet delicate taste that makes white tea so wonderful.

Hook ‘Em Horns (Blood Orange) Herbal Fruit Tea: Texas Longhorn fans are celebrating their win over the Texas A&M Aggies. Our tribute tea is a citrus lover’s dream, with blood orange flavor. It’s a naturally caffeine free herbal blend of apple bits, hibiscus, rosehips, orange, and lemon peels & flavoring.

Today we are gearing up for Thanksgiving! We hope you have a great celebration tomorrow with your loved ones, feasting on fine food and enjoying family. We will be closing early today at 2pm, and will be closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Come by before 2pm to taste these teas we are featuring.

Olympic Gold is a Chinese black tea from Keemun and is rolled into uneven balls. Bold, full-bodied taste and a hint of fruit notes.

Gunpowder Green Tea

Gunpowder Green Tea: Premium grade of China’s famous gunpowder green tea, referred to as “Temple of Heaven” or “Pinhead.” The small dark green pellets of rolled tea leaves look like gunpowder and taste somewhat smoky.

Holiday Rooibos: Celebrate the holidays with this spiced herbal tea! This is a fun tea to get cozy with your loves ones and drink hot tea. This blend includes rooibos flavored with grapes, apple bits, orange peels, cinnamon and almond flakes. Naturally caffeine free.

Jonathan & Amy: Afternoon Tea at the Driskill Hotel

Amy and I thoroughly enjoyed our time at the Driskill Hotel for their Victorian Afternoon Tea. For me, the ambiance alone is reason enough to have afternoon tea at the Driskill; its legendary, grand presence, bringing together past and present elegance, is like none other.

We loved that the afternoon tea began with a glass of sparkling wine, making it a Royal Tea, by definition. (It reminded us of our wedding, as we had the honor of staying at the Driskill for our wedding night.) This was a fun way to celebrate the wonderful blessings in our lives.  

Next we were served individual pots of Tea Embassy’s Nutcracker black tea along with the 1886 Cafe’s incredible scones. The hot scones are hard to beat anywhere, and they were served with lemon curd, devonshire cream and strawberry preserves. We piled on the lemon curd, as it is both of our favorite. The devonshire cream is wonderfully light.

The next course includes the tea tray, a three-tiered tray full of beautiful savories and sweets. My favorite sandwich was the prosciutto apricot one, Amy enjoyed the salmon; the deviled egg sandwich was great, too. We were almost too full to even try the sweets, but enjoyed them nonetheless. They included coconut macaroons, a strawberry mousse petit four, a cream puff, chocolate truffle, chocolate covered strawberries and several others.

The staff is lovely, completing the superb service and wonderous ambiance.  Since Tea Embassy will not be serving Afternoon Tea this Holiday season, the Driskill’s Victorian Afternoon Tea is an alternative that will not disappoint!

You can call to make a reservation, 512-391-7066, December 4 through December 16 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. $48 per person plus tax and gratuity.

Today we are offering three great teas from our selection of over 200 loose teas! Come sample these for free all day, from 10am-6pm.

Black Currant: Grapy, currant-flavored, full-bodied black tea. Makes a great iced tea as well as a great afternoon hot tea.

Gyokuro

Gyokuro: Premium Japanese green tea that is grown in the shade for the last 2-3 weeks before harvest, giving it its distinct quality. Has a wonderful grassy, sweet taste, with buttery notes, typical of Japanese green teas. Excellent paired with sushi or asian cuisine. Brew for 2 minutes at 165 degrees Fahrenheit.

Cold Chaser: Looking for a soothing tea to help you with a cold this season? Try this herbal tea, blending elder leaves, linden blossoms, thyme, aniseed, fennel, rosehip peels, licorice root, blackberry leaves, wild thyme, & marigold blossoms.

We are enjoying another glorious day here in Austin at the Tea Embassy. We are featuring three excellent teas that you can come and sample for free. Stop by and check out our new Tea Menu, our holiday gift boxes, and enjoy these three teas while you shop.

Winter Dreams: A Chocolate Mint Treat! This blend includes black tea, peppermint leaves, cacao bits, nut crunch, flavoring, red pepper, and wheat crisps. Great with a little milk and sugar. Not just for the winter season.

Walnut Green Tea

Walnut Green: Nutty blend of organic Chinese green tea, brittle bits, pineapple bits, coconut flakes, walnut bits, almond bits, and flavoring. This tasty green tea is aromatic and acentuated when you add sweetener to your brewed cup.

Allergy Soother is a great tea to help soothe those allergies this season. This caffeine free herbal blend includes nettle leaves, elder flowers, rose hips, lime blossoms, peppermint, mullein flowers.

Today we have several amazing teas you can come and taste while you shop our extensive selection of teapots, tea cups, tea sets, and great gifts! We have a section of SALE items that are up to 75% off! Directions to Tea Embassy

Golden Buds is an organically grown Golden Yunnan Chinese black tea, made of just buds, almost like a white tea, but it’s a black tea. This is an exquisite and rare tea with a smooth, buttery taste, and a burnt amber color in the cup. Exceptional!

Moroccan Mint Green Tea: Chinese Gunpowder green tea blended with mint leaves, tastes like you’re in Morocco. Add lots of sugar to drink it like the Moroccans do. Also tastes nice with honey. Check out Jonathan’s travel journal about tea in Morocco!

Holiday Rooibos: Celebrate the holidays with this spiced herbal tea! This is a fun tea to get cozy with your loves ones and drink hot tea. This blend includes rooibos flavored with grapes, apple bits, orange peels, cinnamon and almond flakes. Naturally caffeine free.

It’s a beautiful day in Austin, Texas and we are enjoying teas that you can sample for free! Come by and taste one or all of them and learn more about the wonders of tea.

Pomegranate Tea is a great fruity blend of black tea and pomegranate flavor. If you are looking for a unique iced tea or you are simply on a pomegranate kick, this is the tea for you!

Green Snail Spring is a beautifully, curly green tea from Jiangsu, China, known for it’s spring harvest and somewhat chestnut-like taste. Its Chinese name is Bi Lo Chun and is the more refined, more expensive sister tea to the famous Lung Jing or Dragon Well tea.

Peach Apricot Honeybush

Peach Apricot Honeybush has become a popular herbal blend in our store. Delightful, fruity, herbal tea that is wonderful hot or iced. Honeybush is the sister plant to Rooibos and also comes from South Africa, but has a naturally sweeter taste compared to Rooibos. This tasty blend includes green honeybush, apricot bits, peach bits, orange peels, pineapple bits, papaya bits, and flavoring. Naturally caffeine free.

Today we are featuring a strong black tea from India, a fruity green tea blend, and a fun Fall herbal tea. Come by and taste them for FREE today!

Jaimisi Tea comes from Manipur, India, not far from Assam. This hand-crafted, naturally grown, black tea is a great breakfast tea, offering a bold, full-bodied cup of tea, similar to a blend of Assam (malty & sweet) and Darjeeling (green & muscatel or wine). Steeping time at only 3 minutes 15 seconds is all that is needed to enjoy it.

Strawberry Cream Green Tea

Strawberry Cream Green Tea: Aromatic green tea blend of organic sencha, Fog tea, Pai Mu Tan, Lung Ching, Genmaicha, strawberry bits, sunflower blossoms and flavoring. Delightfully fruity, slightly creamy, and a hint of savory from the Genmaicha, which has roasted rice. Makes a delicious hot tea or iced tea!

Pumpkin Spice Rooibos opens up our senses to the changing leaves and harvest moon of Fall. This herbal blend is an excellent caffeine free blend of South African Red Bush, pumpkin flavor and spices, a tasty holiday treat!

Today we are excited to feature tea from the country Georgia. Three of the four teas we are sampling today are hand-made by tea artisans in the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea. Come and taste these exquisite teas and enjoy them at 10% off today only. We also have all our Chatsford Teapots at 10% off today only.

Natela’s Gold: Handmade in the peak of the Spring season, Natela brings this treasured tea to you from the Caucasus Mountains in the country Georgia. This black tea has a sweetness with hints of pine and cedar, making it a wonderful tea for afternoon or evening. Enjoy it while supplies last! This tea is similar to the Georgian Beauty tea we also sell, so if you like the Georgian Beauty you’ll also enjoy this one!

Georgian Village:

Georgian Village Tea

We feel very fortunate to have a limited amount of this special 2007 black tea from Nagobilevi, a Georgian village set up in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea. The tea from this high altitude plantation has a distinctive aroma-notes of apple, citrus, honey and rose with a higher tannin but lower caffeine content. Because of Georgia’s geography and meterology, the teas in this region contain microzones, which add more depth to the character of the tea. The Georgian Village Tea made by families is quite sweet and steeps nicely for at least two infusions, at boiling temperature, 212 degrees Fahrenheit, for 4-6 minutes.

Georgian Beauty:

Georgian Beauty Tea

Another tea we feel very fortunate to have a limited amount of this special black tea from the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea. The tea from this high altitude plantation has a distinctive taste, likened to an Oriental Beauty oolong, thus the name, Georgian Beauty, yielding a rich honey flavor with a beautifully refreshing finish. Because of Georgia’s geography and meterology, the teas in this region contain microzones, which add more depth to the character of the tea. The Georgian Beauty Tea may be steeped for at least two infusions, at boiling temperature, 212 degrees Fahrenheit, for 4-6 minutes.

Georgian Treasure: An excellent black tea from Georgia on the Black Sea. The tea from this part of the world has a sweet overtone, making it a great tea for morning, afternoon, or evening.