Come and discover the world’s greatest teas with one of the most travelled tea specialists working today.

Every Saturday between 10-11am, Tim will host a relaxed one-hour tasting of teas from areas he has visited complete with illustrated tasting notes.

Places must be booked and paid in advance by phone or online as there is a limited number of seats at our tasting table.

1st Saturday – Introduction to Tea – Teas from India, Sri Lanka, Japan, and China
2nd Saturday – Black and White – Teas from Darjeeling, Assam, Sri Lanka, and China
3rd Saturday – Shades of Green – Green teas from Japan, Korea, and China
4th Saturday – The Blues – Oolong teas from Fujian, Guangdong, and Taiwan

Price / Person

Individual tasting £20 (Students/OAPs/Unemployed £15)
Set of 4 tastings £80 (Students/OAPs/Unemployed £55) In addition to these regular tasting we hold special tailor made tastings and events by visiting tea producers and experts. 

Asako d'Offay

Asako comes from a Shizuoka family with a long tea tradition. Her great-grandfather was a pioneering tea farmer who established tea fields in the Mount Fuji area. He was succeeded by his son who produced teas for the Emperor of Japan and who made one of the country's first black teas. Asako continues the tea tradition by studying tea ceremony with her aunt, an Omote Senke Tea School instructor. She will soon start giving simple lessons on how to whisk a bowl of matcha tea. 

Alex Fraser

Alex has been a practitioner of Cha-no-yu, since 1985. He studied full-time in Kyoto from 1993-96 thanks to scholarships from The Ura Senke Grand Tea Master, Hounsai Soshitsu Sen XV. He has also made presentations of tea at events and venues like Japan 2001 and The British Museum. In 2000 Tim and Alex founded East Teas at Borough Market to import specialist East Asian teas. Alex regularly does workshops on Cha-no-Yu at Postcard Teas and more information on the schedule and other events can be found at www.eastteas.com

Jane Pettigrew

Jane Pettigrew is a tea specialist, historian, writer and consultant. Since 1983, she has been working in the UK and around the world to explain and share the fascinating world of tea. She has written 13 books on the many and varied aspects of tea, its production, history, culture, and she writes for tea related magazines and journals. She also gives regular tea masterclasses. To find out more about her masterclasses and her work, visit www.janepettigrew.com