Tuesday Tea Tasting Tea Studio is a fusion of passions: tea and art. What that means you get is a tasty tea represented by an original artwork, which reflects elements of the tea itself. So my Studio Chai had a lovely swirly painting on the packaging - with colours that indicated the spices and assam contained within. I first tasted chai in India - and so I like it sweet and milky like it's served on Delhi's streets. So Tea Studio's recommendation of adding honey went down well with me and the...

Tuesday Tea Tasting Assam1860's packaging asks me boldly: “HELLO, FANCY A CUP OF GOURMET TEA?" I don't normally talk to boxes but I have to answer: “YES, ALWAYS!" Their black tea from the upper banks of Moran circle in Assam is strong stuff - just show the teabag a boiling kettle and your tea is brewed. Why? Because its CTC tea - no I didn't know what this meant either - but apparently it stands for 'crush, tear, curl' a method of processing black tea in which the leaves are passed through...