At Fresh Design Blog, we love a good cup of tea. So when the lovely folks at The London Tea Company offered us the chance of sampling some of their brews, we did what any discerning tea drinker would do – boiled the kettle and got our favourite china cups out.
The London Tea Company produce a wide range of tea, from classic favourites such as English Breakfast, Earl Grey and Vanilla Chai, to herbal teas such as Camomile and Peppermint, to a wonderful gourmet range of inspiring flavours, such as White Tea, Elderflower & Apricot, Peppermint, Spearmint & Strawberry and Red Berries.
We were lucky enough to sample a broad spectrum of teas – the English Breakfast tea did us proud when we ran out of standard tea bags, the Earl Grey is perfect for afternoon tea and many of the gourmet tea bags were surprisingly delicious. In particular, the surprise hit was the Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry (I’ll admit caution at the sound of this strange combination) but it works amazingly well and has just the right balance of the two mints and a hint of fruitiness.
As well as serving them hot, many of the teas also work well as iced teas – which is perfect for the summer months. We’d recommended trying iced White Tea, Elderflower and Apricot, or iced Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry tea. Just brew the tea for three minutes in a couple of inches of hot water, then top up with ice and cold water.
The teas are made from organic tea leaves (many of them are also Fairtrade) and both the boxes and pouches are biodegradable. Some of the teas are available as traditional envelope tea bags or loose tea, whilst others are in the form of pyramid infusers.
You can explore the full range of teas available over at the London Tea Company’s website and online shop, plus they’re on Facebook too. All of the teas are very affordably priced, with a canister of pyramid tea bags (which is great for storing teas in even when you’ve finished the first lot) priced at only £3.99 each.
London Tea Company Competition – Win Tea!
If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning a fabulous selection box of teas (shown above), with lots of exciting flavours to try, leave a comment below and tell us which London tea you’d most like to try and who you’d love to drink a cup of tea with.
For one extra entry, simply tweet the following on Twitter: “@FreshDesignBlog Put the kettle on! I’d like to win gorgeous London Tea Company tea”.
A winner will be selected at random from all entries received after the closing date (10pm on Tuesday 21st June).
The competition is open to those in the UK and ROI only (see full competition terms and conditions).
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I would like to try Spearmint and Strawberry because it sounds different and I would like to have a cuppa with my boyfriend Neil (or Phillip Schofield ;))
Have also tweeted as @webkinny 🙂
peppermint please!
The Earl Grey wins hands down. I’d like a civilised afternoon tea, complete with scones and cake, with my best friends.
Earl Grey and Vanilla Chai with Jimi Hendix
I would love to try the Green Tea, Mango & Ginger, it sounds lovely and I’m a big fan of green tea, I would drink it with my partner as he loves green tea too.
I have tweeted and followed @snowted
Elderflower and apricot please:) and I’ll have it with my boyfriend, along with the cake I’m going to make this week.
I have also retweeted:)
@claire_trevor
I would most like to try the Earl Grey and Vanilla Chai. I would love to drink a cup of tea with my great grandmother one last time she always had the kettle on and ALWAYS served tea in a pot complete with knitted warmer LOL 🙂
I would love to try White Tea, Elderflower & Apricot never had white tea before, always green but this one sounds delicious. I would love to share a cuppa with Victoria Beckham.
I have also tweeted as @ivan47
The elderflower and apricot sounds delicious! I’d have tea snuggled up on the couch with my husband! 🙂
I would like to try the Elderflower and Apricot in my new china teapot, whilst sat in my garden listening to the birds.
I would like to share an Earl Grey with my Wife, it will be our 28th anniversary this weekend and an Earl Grey seems a most appropriate way to celebrate!
strawberry and red berries on my own, heaven
I’d like to try the White Tea, iced with a slice of lemon.
The Elderflower and Apricot sounds delicious, I’d love to try that!
Any tea with strawberries in it would be very fitting for Wimbledon week.
I’d like to sit back, relax, sip tea and watch the tennis with a good looking ball boy or two :0)
I’d most like to try Spearmint and Strawberry because ever since I tried a strawberry and mint posset at a posh lunch do, I’ve realised how great that flavour combination is, and I’d enjoy my little cup of summer, hoping to get some warm weather soon. Furthermore, these teas would be great in all seasons, iced or hot.
Also tweeted as @FlickeringEmber
I’d love a cup of Red Berries tea with Michael McIntyre (after a tough week I could do with a few laughs) but will happily share a pot with my boyfriend instead.
Spearmint and Strawberry sounds intruiging! I’d love to try this with my Mum – she’s a great tea lover.
I’ve tweeted @feefeegabor
I’d love to try spearmint and strawberry, sounds yummy! xx
Earl Grey ..it just makes a Sunday morning!
Spearmint and strawberry… sounds lovely and it’s always good to try something that little bit different! I would enjoy it on the top of the next mountain we climb in the Lakes with my lovely perfect boyfriend 🙂
I love all your teas lots n lots…..Hope some drop through my letterbox.So if i had to pick one,let me see ? I think id go for your spearmint tea.
The elderflower and apricot sounds lovely – and very different. As i’m currently losing weight and drinking more water i’m really into herbal and fruit teas and some of the varieties in this sound really different.
I’d love to drink it with my lovely partner Rob who’s also helping support me during my weightloss.
I’d like to try Vanilla Chai for a change!
I would love to try the Vanilla Chai – as it is completely different and I have never tried it before!!!
Have tweeted @TracyNixon and shared on FB Tracy Nixon MSE
I just love English Breakfast but would be very happy with Earl Grey.
Iced Pepermint sounds perfect on a warm summers evening (although not sure what the chance of that is! – Where has the summer gone???)
Id love to try the Earl Grey.
Have followed and tweeted as lovetocomp.
elderflower and apricot sounds like it would be nice in the garden with the dogs….oh and the other half i supose!
I’d like to sip a cup of peppermint, spearmint and strawberry tea with Tom Waits..
I’d love to try the peppermint, spearmint and strawberry tea. I’d like to drink it with my best mate whilst having a gossip in the garden 🙂
EARL GREY WITH THE QUEEN PLEASE!
ooh i would love to try the elderflower and drink it with jake gyllenhaal. not sure what would be more yummy :0)
I would like elderflower and apricot tea and I would like to have tea with Alan Carr as he makes me laugh so much.
I would most like to drink elderflower and apricot with Tim Henman whilst watching this year’s Wimbledon from the hill, lovely 🙂
Earl Grey and Vanilla Chai please
You just can’t beat Earl Grey tea. My guest would have to be Sting so we could sing a duet together!
Earl grey with my mum
earl grey is pefect tea
Id love the English breakfast tea and I would most like to have a cup of tea with my partner in the mornings as I leave at 5am for work every morning he’s still in bed! 🙁
I love different teas
earl grey is the one for me
Elderflower and apricot with my husband, sounds different x
I would love to try the Elderflower & Apricot tea as a refreshing alternative to quench my thirst during this Great British Summer!
English breakfast tea with Bill Gates
I’d love to try Elderflower and Apricot because it sounds so sweet yet refreshing. I’d like to drink it with my nana who’s a tea lover.
I’d love to try the red berries one with my boyfriend 🙂
I’d love the English Breakfast tea and would drink it with my amazing partner.
Strawberry and Red Berries sounds lovely , so would like to try this one first. White tea sounds interesting though.
The white tea is my favourite, I would drink it with my friends 🙂
I’d love to try Elderflower and Apricot, because I have never heard of it before. I would drink it with my Mum and have a good catch up chat!
Elderflower and apricot sounds delicious
I would love to try Spearmint and Strawberry with my other half. It sounds great for those summer days.
i would love to try any of your teas there are too many to choose from as they all sound lovely .
Elderberry and Apricot iced is just my choice – two of my favourite flavours.
I’d love to try the Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry with my other half – sounds weirdly nice!
Would love to try the Vanilla Chai and have a chat with Mick Hucknall – an avid tea drinker !!
Strawberry and red berries – I have a craving for both of them at the moment so for it to translate into tea to take to work would be fab!
@spritneybeers
I would like the earl grey best, served mild and milky, with my old flat mate that I havent seen suince university. She used to say I could do tea magic, there wasnt any problem I wouldnt solve by getting the kettle on and talking it over.
Strawberry and Red Berries sounds healthy. Could count towards my 5-a-day. I’d drink it alone. Need some me time 😉
Iced White tea sounds lovely, I’d share it with my mum
I would like to try Camomile and Peppermint on my own to relax at the end of a long day
Strawberry and Red Berries
I would love to try the Spearmint one, sat with a group of friends to have a girlie natter.
I would love to try the White tea. I love flavoured teas and in a house full of coffee drinkers it makes a refreshing change to relax with a nice cup of tea!
Peppermint is my fav!
I think the Elderflower and Apricot sounds amazing! i’d love to drink some with my gorgeous fiance as we watch the sun go down together..
I would love to try Spearmint & Strawberry with Rafa Nadal…. Well it is Wimbledon!! yum. 🙂
I would really love to try your Vanilla Chai flavour tea, just becuase it sounds delicious!! I would drink it with my best friend and have a good gossip at the same time. Thankyou for the great competition xx
Elderflower and apricot, what a stunning combination, would love to try this
english tea to share with my best mate… nothing like a natter over a good cup of tea xx
Peppermint – so refreshing, with George Clooney as a change from coffee!
Elderflower and apricot sounds delicious. I’d drink it with my family as a treat.
I’d like to try an iced peppermint with my book group to keep us all alert!
I WOULD LOVE TO TRY THE ELDERFLOWER AND APRICOT, IT SOUNDS LOVELY
I would love to try the Camomile and Peppermint tea with my mum! i miss having cuppas with her since i started work full time i dont get as much time now between work and looking after the kids.
Elderflower and apricot – love it
english tea for me and my famliy mmmm
Vanilla Chai sounds nice
I’d love to try vanilla chai, I’d drink it with my lovely mum, who I don’t see often enough! (plus she’d make the tea and wash up afterwards!)
Strawberry and redberries sound fab
I’d like to drink Earl Grey with my husband.
I would like to try Vanilla Chai and share it with my husband who deserves it for all the hard work he does (he is building my new bathroom cabinets as we speak, bless him!)
Strawberries and berries sounds yummy and I’d love to drink it with the Queen!
Peppermint and Peter Andre. Two of my favourites.
Peppermint, I love everything minty and it would be with one of the PG tips Monkeys, to see what they have to say about these beautiful teas.
I would love to drink a cup of Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry tea with Cheryl Cole and get the gossip about her X Factor departure.
love to try the spearmint and strawberry sound interesting
Elderflower and apricot sounds interesting. i wonder if Rafa Nadal likes tea- bet he’d like this one!!
I’d love to try the Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry tea with my mum!
The classic English Breakfast with Stephen Fry.
would love to try the elderflower and apricot served ice cold whilst relaxing in the garden
I’d love to try the red berries
i would love to try the peppermint tea, yum x
I would love to try the strawberry and spearmint. I’d share it with my best friend who I haven’t seen for nearly 3 years as we now live on opposite sides of the World
Iced white with my dairy-allergic son please 🙂
Ooohhh I’d love to try the Peppermint tea with my mum!
I’d like to try the white tea
I’d love to try the English Breakfast tea
The Vanilla Chai looks really nice.
Ooh the Spearmint and strawberry gets my vote! Sounds heavenly!
English breakfast tea – ideally breakfast in bed with Brad Pitt!!
I’d love to try Elderflower & Apricot, drinking it with my 91 year old grandma.
Definitely the Elderflower and Apricot – I adore Elderflower Cordial (and love apricots too), so can’t wait to see what they would taste like in a tea. I would have to share a cup with my mum, as she loves a cuppa and would hate to miss out on a brew.
Earl Grey – & Mr Darcy please – or Colin Firth will do nicely
Love to try the Elderflower and Apricot as its not one ive come across before and sounds delish!
red berries with my hubby
tweeted @kemo_2002
Vanilla chai with my mum. A good cup of tea solves any problem
elderflower looks nice, i would like o drink it with the queen!
I would have a cup of English tea with my Dad.
I would really love to try your Vanilla Chai flavour tea
@handbag2000
I would love to try the Elderflower & Apricot tea. The person I’d most like to sit down and have a cup of tea with is Rebecca Black. It’d have to be on a Friday, of course. Do you think she’d let me sing with her?
White tea with Roger Federer!
I’d love to try the White Tea and drink it with the Dalai Lama…. Two calming influences in one!
Strawberry and red berries
Hmmm, Think I like the sound of the iced white tea, and I’d like to sit down and have a cuppa with my nan!!!!!
I’d fancy a cup of English Breakfast with Stephen Fry, then he could taste what good tea really tastes like, (rather than an inferior brand he claimed to like for financial gain!).
I’d like the Elderflower and Apricot to take to work. Sounds so refreshing !
I really would love to try the Spearmint and Strawberry. Yum!
I’d love Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry tea with Chris Colfer.
The Vanilla Chai sounds intresting
ooh! English Breakfast tea for me, at the correct time of the day, with Newcastle United goalkeeper Steve Harper preferably!!!
Spearmint and Strawberry with Larry Lamb
The hubby has just recently become obsessed with flavoured tea and is always on the look out for new ones!! would be great to try a few with him!
elderflower and apricot sounds fab! I’d drink it with my brother who likes to think he is something of a tea connoisseur – it would be nice to surprise him
beautiful tea, english breakfast with my Dad please
English Breakfast with my mother
would love to try Vanilla chai over a chat with my friends
x
english breakfast (im somewhat old school)
would love to drink it with Brian May, talk about stereoscopic imagery, guitars and our mutual love of vox amplifiers.
I’d like to try Elderflower and Apricot because it sounds yummy. I need cheering up because a bird pooped on me today!
English breakfast tea with Julius Caesar who never had the pleasure of tasting such luxury!
Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry – sounds an odd sort of combination so would love to try – think id like to drink it with the queen as i missed her visit when she in dublin
Have also tweeted @scrumpy11
I’d love to try the decaf English Breakfast with my mum as I don’t see her nearly enough.
I’d like to try strawberry tea and eat it with Delia Smith along with her home baked cakes
I’d love to try the Elderflower Tea and share it with none other than my beloved husband.
I like most tea but I love earl grey and it would always be with my husband! it is our one month wedding anniversary!
I would love to try the camomile tea never had that one before
I’d love to sit down and have a cup of Elderflower and Apricot tea with J K Rowling.
Vanilla Chai sounds nice =]!
The Vanilla Chai for me, please
I’d love to try the Peppermint, Spearmint and Strawberry, as I love to try new flavours, and it sounds especially refreshing and exciting!
white tea with my Mum 🙂
white tea with hubby please
I’d like to have a cup of Vanilla chai with Kylie Minogue – it would calmn me down nicely if I got too excited
I would love to try Vanilla Chai, I lvoe the smell of vanilla x
I’d love to try the Lemongrass, Ginger & Citrus Fruits. I love herbal and fruit teas like made by Tea Pigs and Cosy Tea, and these look great too. Can really tell the differnce when quality ingredients are used. Who to have tea with, well I am visiting one of my best friends next month who I see about once a year as she lives the other side of the country – so I woud like to drink my tea with Julie 🙂
I’d love to try the Red berries tea with the Queen!!
I’m excited about the Elderflower & Apricot flavour!
I’d like to try some white tea!
Have tweeted and also follow FreshDesignBlog now. (@enderit)
Would love to try Spearmint and strawberry with my daughter.
I’d love to try the double mint and strawberry
I’d love to try strawberry tea with my auntie- big tea fan. (@pandcands)
I’ve followed and tweeted! (@pandcands)
I would like to try strawberry tea. also tweeted @babymumbles
I’d like to try the vanilla chai with my hubby.
I’d like to try a classic earl grey with my Mum.
I would love to try the strawberry flavour tea with my team leader Neil because he is absolutely obsessed with tea.
Oooh, I love Earl Grey, so would love to try their one.
I’d like to try Red Berries
Strawberry and Red Berries with ryan reynolds,mmm!
I’d love to try the Red Berries tea with ‘political comedian’ Tim Minchin 🙂
I’ve followed and tweeted as @LoveWinning 🙂
Earl Grey with Amy Winehouse
Elderflower and Apricot is the one that jumped out at me. Would love to try that.
Followed and tweeted too (@nc099)
The spearmint and strawberry sounds very refreshing – perfect for Wimbledon – so maybe a nice cup with Murray or Nadal might be in order 🙂
I have tweeted about your giveaway @pipersky1 🙂
to be honest I’ve never tried White Tea, Elderflower & Apricot so I would really look forward to giving it a go!
Vanilla Chai would be lush!
I would love to try iced peppermint tea with David Essex!
i’d like to try the peppermint tea with nigel harmen
elderberry and apricot with robbie williams
I’d love to try the peppermint, spearmint and strawberry and I’d love the chance to drink it with my grandad, who died 22 years ago, it would be fantastic for him to meet my children.
I’d love to try Green Tea, Mango & Ginger, it sounds more refreshing than my usual Green Tea!
I’ve tweeted too as @melspur, I’m trying to follow as well, but twitter hasn’t let me follow anyone today!
I Wouk love tk tru the spearmint and strawberry due to the medicinal qualities of the spearmint and it sounds rather yummy! I would love to have a cup of tea with Kate winslet.A true British Rose! Xx retweeted as @lioniparis 😀 xx
Would love to try Elderflower and apricot
Camomile tea with my sister
Would love to try some Peppermint tea with my Dad who I have not seen since I was 7!
Have tweeted @nikkiopia
Also tweeted (@boo1003)
Would love to try Spearmint and strawberry
tweeted @joanna_kow
I’d love a cuppa of iced white tea on a summer evening with my hubby.
Thank you for all the great comments and competition entries, we’ve loved reading them! This competition is now closed – we’ll announce the winner in due course.
I would love to win some fab tea! I love different flavours, so nice, perfect for mornings, evenings or anytime.
Strawberry and Red Berries.. they are in season and in the company of Lady Gaga… She might start to sing beetween a sip of tea and a biscuit…
I’d love to drink the Elderflower and Apricot with the ever-amusing tea enthusiast Stephen Fry.
I would like to try the peppermint tea with my sister who is mad into all diff types of exotic teas 🙂
Strawberries and berries with Bam Margera 🙂
i adore white tea and i would drink it with my tea buddy helga.