Tea at 3CUPS

In today’s marketplace 99% of the tea is flavored, like ginger peach…and brewed using a tea bag, compromising taste for the sake of convenience. We specialize in loose teas of character with inherent flavor…these teas represent the other 1%.  Full leaf teas are the parallel to impeccably fresh coffee…similar because both are the only way you can experience peak flavor.

1. Single Crop… most tea is produced from a single crop. The new crop Super Fancy Formosa Oolong that you buy this week will be the very same tea that you will purchase from us in the winter months ahead.

2. Better Price… the more full leaf tea you buy, the better the price. A pound of tea makes somewhere between 200-240 cups using a 6 oz. cup.

3. Storage is Simple… all you have to do to properly “look after” your tea is store it away from light and heat in an airtight container.

In Our Store... we serve tea prepared in ceramic teapots. We have two sizes, 16oz. (small) and 32oz. (large).  If your tea is to go, we still steep it in a teapot, but we'll pour it in a paper cup.  A small teapot will fill a large paper cup.  Steeping tea takes between 3 and 5 minutes, but we believe it's worth the wait.  Everything we do can be easily replicated at home.

What you won't find at 3CUPS are artificial flavorings, no orange-peach-mango, no vanilla. Great tea that is prepared properly doesn't need it.  We like to taste the tea.  We do have teas scented with jasmine and Earl Grey, tea scented with oil of bergamot.  And we do have a small selection of tisanes or herbal infusions.   We don't have decaffeinated teas (other than the tisanes), but caffeine is quite water soluble on the tea leaf, so you can take +- 80% of the caffeine out with a quick steep, pour off and reinfusion.  Our intent is to give you everything you need to make great tea at home. 

Here is our current Full Leaf Tea List...