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I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks and sincere appreciation to my long-standing customers. Love Loose Leaf Tea has been hit badly by the 13 interest rate rises, the ever-increasing costs of packaging, tea price increases due to piracy in the Suez Canal, and a huge decrease in sales as customers cannot afford to bear the costs passed onto them in this economy. Many of my competitors have also closed down, and the last straw was when one of my packaging suppliers went out of busi …

[Image source: ABC News Australia]Here at Love Loose Leaf Tea we are a micro retailer (read: it's mainly just me!) of premium tea. We rely on distributors that source on our behalf from the highest-ranked German tea suppliers.The troubles lie in the Red Sea. With piracy and conflict ongoing in the region, suppliers of all kinds of goods to Australia are negatively impacted as shipping vessels are diverted around Africa or, if they choose the Suez Canal the additional insurance costs due to the d …

Lately, I've had lots of people ask me about Darjeeling tea, and particularly "why is Darjeeling the Champagne of Teas?". Just as Champagne is a unique, sparkling beverage from the Champagne region in France, so Darjeeling tea is a distinctive, high-quality tea from the Darjeeling region in India. Continue reading here https://www.lovelooseleaftea.com/darjeeling-the-champagne-of-teas.html

The debate rages on - is loose leaf tea better than teabags? Read more about Loose Leaf Tea Vs Teabags on our main site. Click here to read the article.

Head over to the main site to read this new article on what constitutes an Orange Pekoe... Enjoy! Click here to continue reading.

Over on our info site, I wrote an article about Chamomile tea - it's benefits and some nice recipes and alternative uses. I hope you enjoy reading it! Click to read the article. 

To reach a wider audience we sell our tea and coffee accessories on eBay.Click here to check them out!

Australia Post has advised that the cut off for pre-Christmas delivery is mid-December. For me to make this cut-off, you would need to make your Christmas orders by the 14th December to allow me time to pack and post.Our suppliers are closed during the Christmas break. This means that I won't be able to make any "Special Order" items until they return.And lastly, we are taking a holiday break from 21 December to 3 January. You can still make orders online during this time and they will be attend …

Recently, our VIP Club subscribers participated in the Breakfast Battlebox Challenge! The aim of the challenge was to settle, once and for all, the most popular Breakfast Tea on our site between English, Irish, Scottish and Yorkshire Breakfast Tea!There has always been a neck-and-neck competition between our Reserve Champion and Silver Medal-winning English Breakfast Tea, and the Silver Medal-winning Irish Breakfast but, there was a clear winner during this competition!I can confidently announce …