Fresh Picks for Spring

Heading from a warm spring to a hot summer, this weather has us looking to refresh our tea cupboard for the coming months. For something as fresh as this season, let’s highlight some favourites from each tea category that we think are a must for a well-stocked selection: black, green-black, green, oolong/puerh and herbal/rooibos.

Mother's Day Gift Guide 2024

Mother’s Day 2024 is on Sunday, May 12th, which means it’s time for our top Murchie’s gift picks for mom!

From the best treat tea to the herbal blend that feels like it’s doing your body a favour, we’ve got your shopping list covered. It’s up to you to produce the homemade card (hint, hint) with a gift card inside!

Tasting Lab: Sticky Rice Puerh

So far in the Tasting Lab, we've explored discontinued blends, old recipes from the blend book, and new blends following old techniques. It's been a lot of fun! But for May, we're swinging in a new direction, and trying something more single-origin.

This month's tea is a compressed puerh. Each piece comprises about five grams of material, enough for a two-cup pot, or multiple steepings in a mug. But what makes this tea unique, is it blends tea with semnostachya menglaensis, or nuò mǐ xiāng (literally 'sticky rice fragrance'), an herb that smells deliciously of cooked basmati rice, sweet bread and vanilla. The resulting tea has a rich, earthy, sweet flavour, with roasty cooked rice and vanilla notes throughout.

Puerh can be a daunting tea for drinkers to first get into. The dark colour it brews can be intimidating, and with flavour descriptions like 'earth', 'wood' and 'tobacco', it's difficult to know what to expect. This won't be an in-depth introduction to puerh (that's its own deep, deep rabbit hole!), but I hope to spur a little appreciation for this interesting tea.

Carrot Cake Rooibos & White Hot Chocolate

Honeybee Chia Milk Tea