Fall Teas

The autumn collection is the roasted, nutty, orchard-fruit end of the year: twenty blends at a median 96 °C for four minutes, with black tea in twelve of them and the highest median caffeine of any season at 45 mg per cup. Apple, pear, quince, maple, chestnut, hazelnut, brown sugar and baking spice run through the whole list.

Chai-style blends anchor the collection — Pumpkin Spice Chai, Sweet Potato Chai, Thanksgiving Spice — and they behave differently from straight tea: the spices want a longer, hotter steep than the tea base does, which is why traditional preparation simmers them in milk and water together rather than steeping in a cup. Four roasted oolongs sit alongside them for anyone who wants the same autumn register without the milk.

Two rooibos blends round the collection out for the evening, caffeine-free and naturally sweet. Every tea below shows its own temperature, time, ratio, caffeine and tasting notes.