A color, a nose, clarity, liveliness on the palate, light gold, amber, brown, a floral or vegetal note… all the poetic language of a tasting session is not just reserved for wine.
Thanks to its well-known virtues, tea has become one of France’s favorite beverages. So Betjeman & Barton goes beyond the mythical and traditional “tea time” to offer a unique tasting experience with its panel of rare teas, grands crus of the House.
Agnès Defontaine, Managing Director of Betjeman & Barton, is committed to enabling everyone to discover and savor rare teas, just as one appreciates a fine wine: surprising, generous teas that must be tasted at least once in one’s life.
Here is a selection of teas that will delight your taste buds:
Formosa’s incredible academic beauty
This tea owes its unique fragrance to the bite of a tiny grasshopper called a paoli. The paoli sucks the juice from the tea leaf, which transforms the leaf’s metabolism and gives it extreme aromatic complexity. A true rarity, Taiwan does not export this tea all year round. 86€/100gr
The indisputable Yin Zhen, white tea from China
Very rare, from the Fujian province in southwest China, its name means “Silver Needle”. It is harvested just two days a year, with the most precious buds carefully selected and immediately dried. 49.23€/100gr
The formidable Darjeeling Arya from India
Its name translates as “respectable”. Planted since 1825 on 123 hectares, this unique tea is always recognizable. 33.50€/100gr
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