Black & Oolong Teas Green & White Teas Scented Teas Assam TGFOP $2.25 Dancing Leaves $2.50 Earl Grey $2.25 malty and full-bodied sweet, nutty taste black tea scented with oil of bergamot Ceylon OP $2.25 Dragonwell $2.25 Jasmine $2.25 a clean, flavorful tea mild and smooth with a hint of strongly scented, medium green tea Singell Darjeeling $2.25 sweetness Jasmine Pearls $3.00 a mild, bright, crisp tea The People's Green Tea $2.75 light, delicate flavor English Breakfast $2.25 smooth, clean flavor Lapsang Souchong $2.25 a hearty, full-bodied blend Sencha $2.50 smoky black tea, full-bodied Hairy Crab Oolong (China) $3.00 smooth taste, strong grassy aroma Sun, Moon & Stars $2.25 sweet, light, and fruity Silver Needles White $2.75 oolong and green tea with jasmine mild and delicate Flavored Black Teas Pinhead Gunpowder $2.25 Decaffeinated Teas Peach Apricot Essence $2.25 full bodied, a bit sweet Decaf Cinnamon Apple Black $2.50 Cranberry Blood Orange $2.25 Imperial Green $2.25 Decaf English Breakfast Black $2.50 Ginger Peach $2.25 a good everyday green tea Decaf French Vanilla Black $2.50 Strawberry Essence $2.25 Mango Ceylon $2.25 Flavored Green Teas Herbal Infusions (Tisanes) Orange Spice $2.25 Açai $2.25 Cardamon Cinnamon $2.25 flavored with orange essence, Green Ginger Peach $2.25 Chamomile $2.25 cinnamon, cloves, and allspice Honey Ginseng $2.25 Cranberry Orange $2.25 Raspberry Essence $2.25 Moroccan Blend $2.25 Ginseng Peppermint $2.25 Christmas Tea $2.25 peppermint and green tea Hibiscus $2.25 Pomegranate $2.25 blended with sweet blackberry and Republic Green Chai $2.25 stevia leaves with ginger, cinnamon, cardamon and Peppermint $2.25 almonds Where does tea come from? A skilled worker in the tea factory will Black, green, and oolong teas all come from determine when the tea is sufficiently one plant – Camellia sinensis. Tea is an oxidized by its look, feel, and smell. To stop Tea Menu evergreen shrub indigenous to China, Tibet, the oxidation, the tea is fired, or heated, and northern India. It now grows in many either in a mechanical dryer or in baskets or parts of the world from the equator to about metal pans over a heat source. Firing also 42ºN. Tea is cultivated on farms called tea dries the leaves and makes them stable and plantations or tea gardens. A tea bush needs ready for sorting, grading, packing, and to be at least three years old and three feet shipping. tall before it can be harvested. Tea pluckers will take only the top two leaves and the How are oolong teas prepared? new bud from each branch when they Oolong tea is made by a relatively new harvest the tea. The older leaves have a process developed in Formosa (Taiwan) in much harsher taste and should not be the mid-19th century. The tea is placed in picked. All teas must be processed shallow baskets in the sun for a combined immediately after picking to prevent the withering and oxidation. The baskets are leaves from rotting. shaken periodically to bruise the edges of Wilson's has a large selection of the leaves and release enzymes so that the How are green teas produced? edges of the leaves oxidize more quickly loose-leaf teas. We'll brew any of Green tea is produced by first panfiring or than the centers. The oxidation is stopped by them for you in a 16 oz. French steaming the leaves. This exposes the leaves firing, just as in preparing black teas. press – it only takes about 5 to heat that destroys the enzymes that would otherwise have caused fermentation What are herbal teas? minutes. Please look inside (oxidation), and the leaves become soft and Herbal teas are not truly tea. They do not to see your choices. wilted. They are then rolled into the desired come from the Camellia sinensis, but shape and are finally fired to remove excess instead come from many other plants. Wilson's Coffee & Tea, LLC moisture. Herbal teas can also be called herbal 3306 Washington Ave. infusions or tisanes. They can be brewed Racine, WI 53405 How are black teas processed? and enjoyed in the same manner as tea. They 262-634-6611 To prepare black tea, workers begin by can also be blended with tea. While all true withering the leaves to make them soft and teas contain caffeine, most herbal teas do Monday-Friday 6:30am – 6:30pm rolling them to bruise them, breaking cell not. Saturday 7:00am – 6:00pm walls and allowing enzymes within the Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm leaves to have contact with the surrounding air. The enzymes interact with the oxygen in https://wilsonscoffee.com the air in a process called oxidation or [email protected] fermentation. During oxidation, chemical changes occur in the leaves that give them a Wilson's accepts cash, checks, darker color and the typical black tea flavor. or credit cards.