Our tea buyers taste up to 1,100 different teas per day in peak season, so they know when they taste a tea that is truly exceptional. To make Yorkshire Gold, our luxury blend, they are constantly tasting and chasing quality. Once they’ve identified the teas from up to the ten of the best tea estates in the world they expertly combine them to make our very best tasting cup of tea.

So what goes into Yorkshire Gold? Why is the taste so very special? Well, the leaves that go into Yorkshire Gold are mainly grown in three of the best tea producing areas in the world: Kenya in East Africa, Rwanda in Central Eastern Africa and Assam in North Eastern India.

Each particular tea has its own very distinct characteristics that, when blended together, create the really rounded brew that is unique to Yorkshire Gold. One thing all three teas have in common is that they are grown near the equator in perfect conditions.

Tea grows in ‘flushes’. These are when nutrients and enzymes are at their optimum levels that give tea bushes a spurt of leaf growth. For Assam the second flush produces the best and most prized leaves that give Yorkshire Gold its ‘gutty’ strength and wonderfully malty notes.

Now Kenyan tea has a very different flavour. It brings smoothness and balance to Yorkshire Gold. It’s a high-grown tea that represents Kenyan tea at its absolute peak and a real favourite of our tea buyers.

The third origin of tea is Rwanda and we really do take the pick of the crop for our Yorkshire Gold blend. This is another high grown tea grown in rich volcanic soils. The taste is sensational – its wonderfully bright, golden brisk and refreshing – “it’s like turning the lights on in your cup” according to one of our tea buyers.

Expertly blended, teas from these three illustrious origins combine to create a luxurious, full-bodied tea with a wonderfully rich flavour with a truly golden brightness.

It’s not just our experts that think that though. Judges from the Guild of Fine Food Great Taste Awards have repeatedly described Yorkshire Gold as ‘bright, rounded and delivered freshness’. More importantly though, what do you think? We’d love to hear your tasting notes in a comment below.