Royal Teas Fit for the Most Important Queen in Your Life
Just three days until Mother’s Day! Are you ready? Planned the brunch or dinner? Bought the flowers? Wrapped the tea you’re offering as gifts?
We can’t help with the flowers, or the feast reservations or cooking. But we sure can deliver serious savvy when it comes to the tea!
As time is short, let’s focus on special teas for mom. We’ve offered quite a range of tea ideas in this newsletter during the past month or so. Today, we’ll narrow it down to a selection of especially prized and treasured teas. Mom deserves the best. Here’s some fantastic ideas for her.
Best Teas for Mom: Blue Butterfly Green
This tea is all about transformation, and so too should Mother’s Day transform your mom’s Sunday—into a spectacle of love. Our Blue Butterfly Green’s grand pivot hinges on the butterfly pea flowers in the blend. These magic petals turn vivid indigo purple when hit with anything acidic, like lemon juice. The change comes thanks to the high concentration of anthocyanins in the blue petals. In addition, butterfly pea flowers bring a bounty of antioxidants to the blend, and may help contribute toward weight loss, blood sugar control and hair health. This mom-happy tea has it all—rich color, delicate flavors and health benefits. Ingredients include green tea, jasmine (for even more floral advantages), strawberry and papaya.
Best Teas for Mom: Lavender Earl Grey
Queen Elizabeth II favored Earl Grey tea; she reportedly drank it every afternoon, religiously, for many decades. Her preference: cream but no sugar, and often accompanied by scones with cream and jelly, or sandwiches. We also adore Earl Grey tea, and have grown to take to it with especial fervor when it’s punched up with lavender. We don’t know if the Queen Mother ever sipped the Earl Grey-lavender combination. But we surely understand the depths to which we favor this grand tea. We think your queen mother will also fall for it.
Best Teas for Mom: Lady Titania White
In Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Lady Titania served as the queen of the fairies: a dignified, graceful, proud and fiercely independent woman. To honor that strong character, we came up with this mom-leaning blend. Delicate-yet-potent white tea anchors the tea, with orange peel and lemon balm adding citrus and herbal punch—such flavor! The blend also contains marshmallow and echinacea, which contribute health benefits, including relaxation. Invite this blend to gently (and figuratively!) carry mom through an enchanted forest on a midsummer night.
Best Teas for Mom: Jasmine Silver Needle
We can’t resist the siren song of jasmine tea. We carry a variety of styles. Our Jasmine Silver Needle rests on a foundation of premium silver needle white tea, which is one way in which it stands apart from many other jasmine teas, which often use green tea. To make this ambrosial blend, artisans then combine just-plucked jasmine blossoms with tea leaves up to six different times, for up to five hours for each session. The result? A bewitching fragrance and a rich, sweet infusion proffering a multi-layered sipping experience. This is a royal tea. Treat your queen to this botanical gorgeousness for Mother’s Day 2026!
Best Teas for Mom: Sui Yue Liu Xiang Puerh
Fine tea runs the gamut, from exquisite Chinese greens to bold black teas from Darjeeling, India. One category of tea, pu-erh, attracts quite a bit of praise and attention. Pu-erh, the only major category of tea that undergoes fermentation, often gets formed into cakes, which tea aficionados then age. Over time, these cakes evolve—the process is similar to what happens with certain kinds of wines as they spend more time, in many cases decades, in the bottle. They gain complexity and nuance, and draw fanatics for eyes-rolling-back-in-their-heads tastings.
Our Sui Yue Liu Xiang pu-erh, which means “fragrance of age,” is crafted from Imperial or Gong Ting Grade pu-erh (this means the quality is exceptionally high) from Yunnan Province’s LinCang County. It brews strong, smooth and earthy, with notes of pipe tobacco and citrus. As with all pu-erhs and other Chinese teas like oolongs, it takes well to multiple steepings—even a dozen. With each steep, the flavors and aromas shift and transform.
This ranks as a tea that mom will never forget. It dazzles with flavor and pleasure. And bonus—it provides energy, through tidy amounts of caffeine, and it’s powerfully healthy. The fermentation process helps forge a tea that is especially helpful for digestion. People across China sip pu-erh routinely to help settle stomachs and improve digestive processes.
Happy Mother’s Day to all of your moms! We hope you savor every minute on Sunday with your own superhero.
