Gray & Seddon Premium Teas News & archived articles

Gray & Seddon seasonally select and continually review a comprehensive range of teas from the very best tea gardens in China and Japan. One important aspect of our business is the supply of premium quality and special grade teas to teashops and restaurants throughout the world. We have now placed on our wholesale lists a unique selection of high quality breakfast & afternoon teas, spring green teas and Fujian oolongs and Tasmanian herbal teas. All our premium teas and herbals are available in convenient quantities as low as 1kg.

If you run a business providing tea (leaf or beverage) and would like more information on Gray & Seddon's seasonal wholesale teas or indeed our range of unique tea-pottery, please feel free to contact us by telephone, fax, post or e-mail. See INFORMATION 'Gray & Seddon' for addresses of relevant G&S associates on the homepage of this website. For replies on current prices and availability please state your order requirements along with your business name, address and full contact details. Please Note: Wholesale prices of most items change throughout the year and may also vary depending on the size and composition of your order.

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Seasonal Wholesale

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Gray & Seddon
FAMOUS TEAS, HERBALS AND ACCESSORIES

Add to your product range and shop displays a great selection of our red stoneware 'Purple Sand' pottery from Yixing. Or perhaps some Japanese Tokoname teapots, or a selection of the best blue & white bone china. Whatever your requirements, Gray & Seddon can supply the very best tea-pottery & offer business customers a very personal & timely service.

Gray & Seddon
Merchants of Premium Tea

GRAY & SEDDON is a privately owned Anglo-Australian company that specializes in selecting premium quality tea from gardens in China and Japan. G&S takes great care sourcing and packing its premium tea to ensure its listings retain seasonal freshness and complexity of flavour characteristic of origin. Gray & Seddon was formed in 1995 by two tea enthusiasts committed to drinking the best artisan teas still in production. The company has attained high standards for its listings by fostering direct and personal links with growers, regional tea co-operatives and tea-makers in several of its key supplies. Gray & Seddon today remains a company of tea enthusiasts. One that actively takes part in the tea-making process; annually visiting gardens and tea-makers to research seasonal variations & other production quality issues. G&S went on-line in March 1997 as a tea information resource. Now the business promotes its seasonal listings to fine tea drinkers and enthusiasts all over the world by shop retail and Internet-mail order. In 1999 we introduced some of the first certified organic tea herbals originating from the state of Tasmania as well as promoting the rarest organic green and oolong teas from China. Since 2003 we have pursued production improvements and innovation with our associates with the introduction of a range of premium tea bag products and low-caffeine seasonal green teas. The Gray & Seddon website presently supports over 90 Premium Teas in what is quite probably the largest portfolio listing of limited production teas still being made by artisan producers. Along with our established tea information services, secure on-line ordering and very personal mail-order service, we are the merchants of choice for those serious about premium tea.

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Seasonal Teas Supplied from Origin
PREMIUM TEA SUPPLIER
Seasonal Teas of Origin

TOP GRADES OF SPECIFIED ORIGIN

WIDE SELECTION OF SEASONAL TEAS

AIRTIGHT FOIL PACKAGING

SMALL WHOLESALE ORDERS WELCOME!

DEDICATED AND PERSONAL ON-LINE SERVICE

The G&S Seasonal
Procurement Policy

We have established our business as a quality supplier of all classes of tea; emphasizing freshness, origin and seasonality. Every season our policy is to acquire a listing of teas that is largely unobtainable. Our present portfolio consists of teas that are: (i) seasonally selected, (ii) low production or handmade, (iii) sourced from gardens of known origin: tea gardens visited by Gray & Seddon, which can guarantee high standards of garden management & quality manufacturing, (iv) characteristic of origin & defined by their quality and organolepticity. Many of these attributes can only be satisfied by the smaller, family-run tea producers. People who know their region's tea well and can skilfully make them of great character. Our suppliers are also acutely aware of the diminishing returns associated with the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. That is why the G&S tea listings originate from gardens that practice green cultivation as a way of life.

TEA-ROOM MENU
Green Tea, organic herbals, premium
breakfast and afternoon

Notice to all tea-room proprietors to improve menu listings by introducing one of our classic Chinese and Japanese green teas. A selection of over 70 premium grades of green tea from the Anhui, Hunan, Sechibaru, Ureshino and Yame tea gardens is now being offered by Gray & Seddon. This special range of teas is supplied in 100g to 1kg packages, direct to tea-rooms and restaurants throughout the US and Europe. These high-value green teas are offered at exceptionally low prices and delivered to your business by airmail within 7 days. A very wide selection of tea and tea-ware products distributed by Gray & Seddon never feature on our Internet listings. For further information on what is available, with current prices contact Gray & Seddon Seasonal Wholesale today.

Tea & Gourmet
Food Retailer

For food and tea retailers who are looking to expand special product lines Gray & Seddon can supply a unique range of connoisseur teas at competitive prices. Each item is sold with full product label details, specifying tea origin, use before date and net weight. We also provide information leaflets with each tea item explaining how best to prepare the tea, as well as what to look for in terms of flavour and aroma characteristics. Gray & Seddon also offer a range of package options for 20g, 50g and 100g, from plain to decorative foils, boxes, tins and caddies. Customised quantities & packaging is also available for business account holders.

Specialist Teashop
& Restaurant

Fresh teas seasonally selected by expert tea tasters and available to you in the quantities your business needs. Whether you're looking for a fine English afternoon tea, or want to improve and diversify your present menus with the finest Darjeelings and Japanese green teas, Gray & Seddon can guarantee to deliver the best on the market. We despatch our connoisseur teas worldwide to teashops in bulk amounts as low as 1kg. All products are shipped foil packed and sealed under vacuum or nitrogen, with full origin and preparation details. Our business guarantees quality and offers a personal service to support your business.

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Seasonal Wholesale

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EARL GREY
AFTERNOON TEA

Earl Grey: categorized as a 'flavoured tea' and popularly ranked along with others such as jasmine, lemon tea and mint blends. Over recent times many other flower-scented and fruit-flavoured blends have emerged in this category by tea blenders. Earl Grey tea is traditionally a flavoured black tea with the zest or oil of bergamot extracted, a lime-like citrus fruit. Traditional blends still hold to this with zests/oils mixed with processed tea. The quality of the oils, base black tea and nature of the blending provide a variety of teas all with different characteristics. Ceylon teas, India blended with Chinese, rarely Chinese alone. Sometimes it is a blend of African teas. Gray & Seddon offer a unique range of Earl Grey teas wholesale for teashop and tearoom.

PREMIUM JASMINE
GREEN TEA

Jasmine tea (Chinese pin yin name Mo Li Hua Cha) is known throughout the world for its refreshing and fragrant character. The tea favoured in China is a melange of green tea with the fragrances of jasmine flower (although black tea and oolong jasmines are also manufactured). The quality of all such perfumed teas depends on the grade of the base tea as well as the quality of the scenting. The finest jasmine teas are manufactured in the south of China (in particular in Fujian Province), although today considerable production of high quality jasmine teas occurs in Zhejiang Province to the north, and in Hunan and Anhui Provinces. Methods of production vary considerably with region, but basically involve blending of pan-fired green teas with flowers of jasmine. Sometimes blossom is directly mixed with the tea, other techniques require the use of scenting stacks. To get the perfuming right, blending occurs at night, using specific proportions of tea to blossom. It's a highly skilled operation & the best Jasmine teas are rare and expensive!

[KEEMUN] [FUJIAN BLACKS] [JASMINES] [LAPSANG SOUCHONG] [OOLONG & TIEGUANYIN] [EARL GREY] [GOLDEN PEKOE]
[MINT TEA] [POWDERED GREEN TEA] [SENCHA GREEN TEA] [GYOKURO GREEN TEA] [HERBALS] [PU'ER AND COMPRESSED TEA]
[JAPANESE TEAPOTS] [GLASSWARE] [TEA CADDIES] [YIXING] [STONEWARE] [FINE PORCELAIN]