Up from the high elevations of Nilgiri Hills comes this delicious green tea, Woodlands Green Tea, raw in its power, yet smooth as silk! This tea is certified organic green tea and the longish withered leaf turns in to bright green upon steeping. It produces a light green liquor upon a steep time of 1-1.5 minutes. Recommend upto three steeps out of one tea spoon, with subsequent steep times increasing by 30 seconds each.

This superfine tea is currently on sale - 100gms for only $6.71. You won’t find a better deal for a tea this smooth.

1lbs of this organic green bulk tea comes for only $24.41, compared to $32.55, a savings of over $8, which should more than cover the cost of shipping and then save you some money!

Offer for a limited time only.

-Madhu

Weekly Special

Save $8 on Woodlands Organic Green Tea! 1lb of Woodland Organic Green is regularly sold for $32.55, now you can get it for only $24.51! Limited time only.

Graduating to Loose Leaf Tea

All tea is loose leaf tea at the time it is manufactured, but once the tea is manufactured, it can be packed in the form of either tea bags or loose leaf tea. While tea bags are a convenient way to brew tea, unfortunately, most of the “grocery store” tea bags often contain really inferior tea which has earned them the derision of those who enjoy the tea for what it is - a wonderful beverage to be enjoyed. Folks who really enjoy teas tend to go for “loose leaf tea”, i.e. tea that has not been packaged into the traditional flat teabags*.

Loose leaf tea from India

At Jaya Teas, we carry a lot of single estate loose leaf teas. Single estate loose teas are different from the regular Darjeelings and Assams sold in the store in that the typical Darjeelings, and Assams sold in the stores tend to be blends, produced to provide you a certain flavor or taste. Most of the teas we carry do not have a typical flavor. These teas are like wines, with their own individual exceptional flavor, appearance, aroma and taste. Since these teas have such individual characteristics, people who enjoy a particular tea, tend to hoard it, because once it is gone, it is gone for ever!

There are many a wonderful estates in India, including the famous Castleton Estate, Goomtee Estate, Margaret’s Hope Estate, Okayti Estate, all of them in Darjeeling. In Assam there are some wonderful estates by the banks of river Brahmaputra (daughter of Brahma), such as Mokalbari, Jultibari, Marangi. These estates have one thing in common - they strive to produce the best of best teas. Often times, teas from these estates fetch some of the highest prices in the world!

How to drink loose tea

If you are new to loose teas, there has never been a better time to try loose tea. Graduating from teabags to loose teas is not as difficult as it may seem. One has to remember that brewing tea takes a few minutes and requires at the very least, a tea sac or a sampler of teas? A sampler is a very economical way to enter the world of loose tea. Each sampler has three to four different kinds of teas giving you the opportunity to try the teas out before you decide to purchase it in bulk. You can even specify the type of loose tea you want in the sampler and we will send you just the tea you want to taste. When you have tried a couple of samplers you will know which tea really suits your palate and then you can stock up on that particular loose leaf tea.

Graduating to loose leaf tea

So, are you ready to try out some loose leaf tea? To learn to enjoy loose leaf tea all it takes is an open mind and little bit of inquisitiveness. Once you have tried loose leaf tea, I am quite sure you will never go back to tea bags!

*We do carry some tea bags in our portfolio - these tea bags however are of a different kind - these are hand made pyramid tea bags that are filled with leaf tea, unlike the flat teabags which are often filled with tea dust. The tea bags we carry in fact contain precisely the same tea that is available in loose form on our website.

The name Longview, brings back some great memories of my childhood summers. It is one of those gorgeous tea estates that has gone through many ups and downs, as the garden changed hands from one owner to the next. Recently, even the 200 year old factory burned down to ground. But fortunately, the estate is back in the hands of Mr. R.S. Tiwari who has spent a life time tending to this little piece of heaven on earth, and things are slowly getting back to normal.

Taste the delicious flavors of Longview in this loose leaf first flush tea. For a limited time, Longview loose leaf first flush tea is on sale. So save 15% and order Longview first flush today.

Offer open while supplies last.

Jaya Teas famous NUT TEA is on sale right now. Here is what one of our customers had to say about the tea…

Jaya Nut Tea is very different from the other darjeelings I’ve tasted. It is excellent sweet, even with dash of milk. It is not astringent. The flavor is aromatic and flowery, but also nutty, a bit like apricot jam. It is an excellent addition to you tea pantry. It would be a good choice for someone switching from coffee, because it has a more full, dark flavor than other darjeelings, while still being distinctly a darjeeling. Nice for variety too.

Nut tea has the shells of the seed produced by the tea plant. The shells add a bit of a spicyness to the tea which is quite unique. If you want to drink it as an iced tea, I would recommend letting the tea cool for a while after brewing it and then pouring it over ice. I guarantee the tea will wow you!

Save upto $12 today - 100mg Jaya Nut Tea has been reduced for sale from $11.95 to $8.96, and 1lb bag of nut tea has been priced down from $40.85 to $28.60!

And as always, purchases over $75 are shipped free!!

I came across Abaji in browsing the music section of NPR, and could not resist sharing this video with you. Having been exposed to both eastern and western forms of music (as is the case of most immigrants from east to this country, I suppose) I am a big fan of musicians who introduce me to a different musical tradition. Abaji is an ambassador of world music to all of us being an exponent of Greek, Turkish, Armenian and French music. Here is what NPR had to say about Abaji.

Abaji’s work spans many cultures and languages. With roots in Greece, Turkey, Armenia and France, he’s at home strumming a twangy bouzouki, blowing into a breathy duduk or bowing a soft-toned kamancheh. When recording his latest album, Origine Orients, he played 10 different instruments, many of them simultaneously, with no second takes or overdubs. It took him just two days

Enough said about the musician. If you want to know more about Abaji, please play the Tiny Desk Concert video, and to visit his website (parts of which are in French and unintelligible to me). But there are english language translations in many places.

Weekly Special!

And another thing - we have a sale going on at the moment on Tigerhill Tea - 20% off until the end of the month. We have a small stock of this wonderful tea left which will be gone soon, so order some if you would like to have some. Once its gone, it will be gone! The tea is available in both 100 gm pack and 500 gm pack which at $43, is a great steal!

Our favorite green tea, the Woodlands Estate Green tea from the Nilgiri Hills Green Tea is on sale from now until November 26th. This nice tea is an Organic Second Flush Tea grown at a high elevation of 6100 feet in the blue mountains of South India.

Both 100mg packs and bulk 1lb bags are on sale at 25% off

Upon from the high elevations of Nilgiri Hills comes this delicious green tea, raw in its power, yet smooth as it can be! This tea is certified organic green tea and the longish withered leaf turns in to bright green upon steeping. It produces a light green liquor upon a steep time of 1-1.5 minutes. Recommend upto three steeps out of one tea spoon, with subsequent steep times increasing by 30 seconds each.

The pictures below will tell you just how enticing this tea is!

Grade: Superfine
Season: Second flush
Leaf: Longish black
Liquor: Bright pale yellow
Infusion: Bright green

Please click the images below to enlarge them. Click the right edge to advance to next image

Net weight: 100 gms (3.5 oz)
Typically one 100 gm pack can make up to 100 cups of tea, with each cup costing less than 9 cents. With this sale, your per cup price drops to less than 7 cents! Now that is some savings!

Here is a copy of the letter I sent to our customers yesterday. Even if you are not a customer, this is a great opportunity to save on some teas which you could potentially use as gifts during the coming holiday season.

Enjoy!

Dear Customer:
SALE! SALE! SALE!
I am pleased to inform you that we have following teas on sale until 29 September:
1) Gopaldhara First Flush Tea: 15% off regular price of $15.95, now only $13.56. Few quantities remain, so hurry while the stock lasts
http://www.jayateas.netfirms.com/nfoscomm/catalog/gopaldhara-firstflushtea-p-130.html

2) Jaya Reaserve Handmade nut tea: 25% off regular price of $11.95 for 100 gms, now only $8.96.
http://www.jayateas.netfirms.com/nfoscomm/catalog/jaya-reserve-handmadenuttea-p-135.html

3) This tea is also available in 1lb bags. 1 lb bags are 30% off the original price: $40.85, now only $28.60
http://www.jayateas.netfirms.com/nfoscomm/catalog/jaya-reserve-handmadenuttea-p-136.html

4) Mangalam Estate Assam Tea: 20% off regular price of $8.95, now only $7.16
http://www.jayateas.netfirms.com/nfoscomm/catalog/mangalam-estate-p-137.html

5) Woodlands organic Green Tea; 100gms 10% off original price of $8.95, now only $8.06
http://www.jayateas.netfirms.com/nfoscomm/catalog/woodlands-organic-greentea-p-141.html

Prices of products on sale have been revised, so you do not require any coupon code to be entered during checkout.

FREE SHIPPING
As always, all tea and tea accessory purchases above the value of $75 are shipped free.

LOYALTY POINTS
And all your orders earn you loyalty points which can help you reduce the future cost of your tea purchases even further.
Did you know that there are two other ways in which you can earn points?
1) By referring our website to your friends and family you can earn $2.50 worth points when they make a purchase using the referral code sent by you
2) You can earn $1 worth points by simply writing reviews on our site.

MONETIZE YOUR BLOG
We also compensate people for writing review of Jaya Teas products on your blogs. If your weblog has a page rank of 5 or above, you can earn as much as $10 for each review! So monetize your blog by putting a link to our website on your blog. For more information, please visit us at http://www.jayateas.com/payment-for-links/

Please visit us online to review our large catalog of teas. www.jayateas.com

SALE ENDS ON 29TH SEPTEMBER!

Kind Regards,

Madhulika Pareek-Joshi
Jaya Teas, LLC
A woman owned business

THIS SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION

Jaya Teas is offering a bag of 20 nylon tea pods of premium tea to any one completing the survey below. The survey is designed to help us pick top three bill boards we can use on our website. Its a way for us to involve you, our customer, in taking important decisions about our business!

Thank you for participating, your input is very valuable and important to us.

This is the survey link.

Madhulika

THIS SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION

Coupon code - “memorialday”

Although our country is at war, for most families like my own it doesn’t really feel like it every day. And the main reason for this is that we are protected by very able men and women of the armed forces. We should all be very grateful to these men and women of armed forces who put their lives on line every day to ensure that our freedoms are safe.

But I am sure that it is different for the families of soldiers whose loved ones have given the ultimate sacrifice of laying down their life to protect us. To all those families I salute in honor. Your sacrifices and those of your loved ones will not be forgotten.

This memorial day, lets take a moment to remember all the young men and women who have given their lives in this war and wars of the past. To celebrate this somber occasion, Jaya Teas is offering 10% off on all the teas and tea accessories.

To take advantage of this offer, simply use the coupon code “memorialday” at checkout. If you have any questions, please contact us by clicking here

Celebrate Mother’s Day, For Next Six Months!

Dear Customer, This May 10 we will undergo the annual ritual of celebrating our mothers for all they do for us. But really, shouldn’t we be celebrating our moms every day of the year? Tough if you live far off like I do, but we will make it easier for you. Now, with our Tea Club membership you can celebrate your mother not only on Mothers Day, but the joy of the day gets repeated each month when your mother receives tea from us!

For a limited time, we are offering 10% off on the Tea Club membership. So, what is traditionally $120 tea club membership, will cost you $108!. Whats more, you will be rewarded 108 reward points which gives you a discount of $10.80 on your future purchase!

So, this Mothers day, give the favorite lady in your life a gift that will renew itself each month. Give her the Tea Club membership. Click on Gift Packs and Baskets link in the categories box on the left.

Happy Mother’s Day. I look forward to hearing from you. sales(AT)jayateas.com

- Madhu Pareek-Joshi