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Shop Loose Leaf Tea Online: Premium Tea Delivered Australia-Wide

Looking to shop loose leaf tea online? You’re certainly not alone. Across Australia, more people are stepping away from standard supermarket tea bags and choosing premium loose leaf tea for better flavour, freshness and variety. At TeaLovers.com.au , we proudly offer one of Australia’s most extensive collections of loose leaf tea, all available to enjoy from the comfort of home. When you shop loose leaf tea with Tea Lovers, you’re choosing teas sourced from trusted estates and boutique growers across Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka and beyond. Each batch is carefully selected for aroma, freshness and depth of flavour. Unlike conventional tea bags, loose leaf tea retains more natural essential oils and character, resulting in a fuller, more rewarding cup.  Our collection of tea spans a wide range of styles and blends. If you prefer to shop loose leaf tea by category, you’ll find everything from refined Japanese green teas and smooth Taiwanese oolongs to classic black teas, h...

Rooibos & Herbal Infusions Tea - Tealovers.com.au

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Rooibos tea is a herbal infusion made from the Aspalathus linearis bush shrub that is native to South Africa. Rooibos isn’t actually a tea in the sense that it doesn’t come from the camellia sinensis plant – It is a herb that infuses in water to make a nutritious herbal beverage. Similarly to the production of tea, rooibos tea leaves (leaves form the Aspalathus linearis shrub) are cut, dried and fermented to produce a reddish-brown coloured leaf. Indigenous to South Africa, rooibos tea is the popular drink found in most South African households and is now currently sold in over 60 countries worldwide. It is interesting to know about how rooibos tea was first discovered. In the 1700’s early Dutch settlers in Cape Town discovered rooibos tea as an alternative to drinking expensive black tea from Europe at the time.  A European botanist Carl Thuinberg who visited Cape Town in 1772, studied the rooibos plant and the tea that could be brewed from it. Following this, ...