SPILL the tea

Bag of Spill everyday tea, brown Betty teapot, stripe pottery mug and red & white tea towel

We’ve been giving a new everyday tea a try this week… and, as we both love a cuppa, it’s an exciting thing! We have a couple of favourite brands that we consider to be a good everyday tea… and now SPILL tea has definitely joined them. In fact, we’ll probably just switch completely, as it’s perfect on so many levels.

First things first, it’s a wonderful cup of tea. It’s a lovely golden colour, robust & flavoursome, whilst staying light & clean… a sparkle on the palate. It gets the magic sigh after the first sip, “…ooooh that’s a good cup of tea!”.

Thank you not from Spill tea

It’s a new venture for co-owners Lou & Sofia, although both have a long history and much experience in the tea world.

The combination of a great cuppa combined with treating the farmers with respect & gratitude has obviously been the driving force for their new company. They deal directly with the farmers who hand pick the crop, so only the best leaves are used… it’s not a blend of whatever tea was cheapest in the market or at auction. No need for middlemen or deals that drive prices and quality downwards.

You can actually see the difference as you take each spoon from the tin – none of that dusty, tired-looking mixture here.

SPILL pays $3 / kilo – 50% above Fairtrade. Plus, an additional farmer payment of 50¢ / kilo.

Add to that, we love the logo & branding – and the packaging, which is home recyclable. Perfect all round!

For you, a better cuppa. For the farmer, a better price.

Bags of Spill everyday tea and teabags

So, our advice is to give it a go – you won’t regret it. We’ve been drinking it all week and still appreciate that extra quality and improved experience that it’s brought. As Lou & Sofia say, it’s all about upgrading the products that you have on a regular basis whenever possible – whether it be coffee, bread, beer or tea. Little things that make moments in life so much more enjoyable!

They have loose-leaf or tea bags – and very nice storage tins if you need one of those too.

Enjoy… and try not to spill it!

Price Points: Tea subscriptions

Tea subscriptions | H is for Home

Working from home, we drink a lot of hot beverages during the day – the kitchen is less than 10 paces away from where we sit at the computer. We tend to have one or two cups of coffee in the morning, then switch to loose leaf teas for the rest of the day.

We drink all sorts of tea – black, white, green – depending on the time of day or what we’re eating. I also cook with tea leaves occasionally.

We tend to buy our ‘everyday’ tea (Yorkshire Tea) at the supermarket, our ‘special everyday’ tea from Fortnum & Mason, our usual brand white tea from Amazon and green and jasmine teas from a Chinese supermarket in Manchester.

Tea subscriptions were made for people like us. We’re always up for trying new ones that you wouldn’t normally find in the supermarket. What kind of tea(s) do you drink?

  1. Teabox: from £39.70 for 3 months
  2. Silver Lantern tea: from £36 for 3 months
  3. Fortnum & Mason: from £45 for 3 months