How to make a great cup of tea.
The two essential components of a great cup of tea are fresh tea and pure water. The water is the most important ingredient. It is best to filter your water, and better still if the water is high in alkalinity. Make sure it is cool, and if you do not have a filter make sure you run the water from the tap so the water is cool before you put it into the pot.
The Portal Tea Company recommends several choices of water machines offered on the Portal Market:
Water Filters and Water Machine Links
The Tea Canisters
The 2nd requirement for a good cup of tea is fresh tea. Storing the tea in a dry cool place, preferably not in direct light, is the best option.You must keep in mind that tea takes on other oders, so its best not to let it be effected by smoke or other cooking odors.
India Rosewood Tea Box with Brass Inlay
The Portal Tea Company is offering a beautifully crafted India rosewood tea box with brass inlay. Rosewood is valued for its ability to take a high polish and for its rich color, which ranges from dark reddish-brown to purplish-brown. Its name comes from the roselike odor of the wood when it is sawed. The wood is sometimes called blackwood. Rosewood comes from trees in the genus Dalbergia. These trees grow in Brazil, Central America, Southern Asia, and Madagascar.
This wood makes an ideal box to store tea bags or loose tea, and with the brass inlay which makes for a most beautiful box for your tea.
How to order
Chinese Porcelin Tea Canisters (Square and Round)
These are exquisite canisters which can hold 150 grams of loose tea. They have depicted on the outside a painting of the 18th century Ching dynasty which makes a perfect canister to hold your Chinese teas or other favorite teas.
How to order
Please specify whether you want the round or square canister.
Send checks or money orders to the Portal Market
PO Box 655
Fairfax, CA 94978
Tel: (415) 258-7356
