Tea Break Blog

B Corp certified!
We’re delighted to announce English Tea Shop is now B Corp certified! Throughout the process, Joe’s Tea was considered in answering all of the verifications and questions and as a member of the group, we are proud to carry this certification. B Corps are legally required to consider the impact of decisions on our employees,…

Our new loose leaf range wins Great Taste Awards 2022
We have won not one, but three stars at this year’s Great Taste Awards! This means we have a whopping 37 Great Taste Awards across our range of organic teas and herbal infusions. We only entered our new loose leaf range this year and picked up the following awards… St. Clement’s Lemon loose leaf…

2021 Great Taste Award winners
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve picked up another 4 gold stars at this year’s Great Taste Awards. This means we have a whopping 34 Great Taste Awards across our range of organic teas and herbal infusions. Big thanks to all our team and partner farms for their continued support and strive for great quality. The…

4 more gold stars in the bag
Another win at this year’s Great Taste Awards sees our total of gold stars rise to 25 across the range. Thanks to the Guild of Fine Food and their hard-to-impress judges Sweet Chamomile steals two gold stars, and a further one each for St. Clement’s Lemon and the jewel in our crown, Chocca-Roo-Brew, having been…

Longflint collaboration #1
Master mixologists Longflint Drinks Co. hand-make natural botanical craft drinks and are popping-up in Shoreditch for a six week summer residency (18th June – 1st August) featuring DJs, collaboration launches, meet the maker sessions and a pro-gram of natural drinking workshops. The botanical playground will showcase the unique methods that Longflint use to create…

The Ever-So-English family grows
The original of our organic Ever-So-English family is our Breakfast tea. Joe chooses Ceylon tea for it’s delicate, floral and moreish flavour profile, and it remains our best-selling tea by a country mile. Since launching almost six years ago, the time has come to extend the family with two exciting new blends. The first, Ever-So-English Everyday is a quicker brewing…

A slice of Cotswold’s luxury at The Painswick
We were lucky enough to take a little time out of the office last week to visit The Painswick and experience some luxury in the Cotswolds. Nestled in the countryside in a sleepy village this boutique hotels offers the highest standard of food alongside unpretentious opulence. If a countryside weekend full of walks, reading by an open…

Sleepy Cow Tea
We’ve created an exclusive blend for internationally renowned beauty brand Cowshed for their new range, Sleepy Cow. Drift off into a good night’s sleep with Sleepy Cow Tea. A blend of calming organic Chamomile, Lemon and Marjoram. Cowshed knows a thing or two about natural and wild crafted ingredients… and you can be sure as…

7 Gold Stars at Great Taste Awards 2014
Following on from last year’s successes of St. Clement’s Lemon and Chocca-Roo-Brew winning two gold stars each, we’re delighted to have been awarded seven gold stars in total, including the highest accolade of three shiny, gold stars for our Proper Peppermint, at this year’s Great Taste Awards. Organised by the Guild of Fine Food, the…