Singapore is a large melting pot of different cultures, out of the 5.7 million population as of 2019 data, 2.9 million are of Chinese ethnicity. With this reason, the tea culture is deeply rooted amongst Singaporeans, where they offer both local and international tea. To satisfy your tea cravings, here are 12 best Singaporean tea brands that you must try.
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Pek Sin Choon
Founded in 1925, this tea brand is one of the few traditional Chinese tea merchants in the country that has retained the traditional process of blending and roasting its own tea leaves without adding any artificial flavoring. Due to their intricate tea-making process, almost all bak kut teh shops in the country have chosen them as their main supplier of tea.
One of the most popular offerings of this tea brand is Unknown Fragrance, which is a blend of oolong tea varieties. They also sell pu-erh, lapsang souchong, oolong, and tieguanyin.
Antea Social
Antea Social’s teas are directly sourced from Singaporean tea makers and farmers, making sure that quality and authenticity are preserved across their whole product offerings. The teas are then baked with essential oils for half a day before putting them in the oven for a week. This whole process allows the tea to be re-steeped numerous times without losing flavor and taste.
The tea brand focuses on three types of tea: green, oolong, and black tea. Some of their popular tea blends include Kyoho grape, golden pomelo, lychee, mint, peach, rose, and vanilla.
The 1872 Clipper Tea Co.
The 1872 Clipper Tea Co. is considered as the oldest tea producer in Singapore. When a young Ceylonese established his jewelry boutique on High Street in 1872, he consequently served his regulars with Ceylon tea. Consequently, he invested in tea facilities and plantations, which helped him embrace the wholesale tea business. In 2011, the tea brand finally switched its business into selling tea products directly to the public.
Taste of Singapore is a signature tea flavor of the tea brand that combines the flavors of Ceylon black tea, ginger, mango, passionfruit, pineapple, and soursop. The Sip of Singapore is another well-known flavor that contains floral Garden tea with rose petals. The tea brand also sells masala chai, Assam, mango punch, and apple-teani.
A.muse Projects
From its pop-up stall in 2013, A.muse Projects has grown into a Singaporean tea brand that offers unique tea beverages for different tea drinkers in Singapore. Its tea offerings are packaged into handcrafted materials that are perfect for presents. As for the flavors, the tea brand sells alcohol-, wine-, and coffee-inspired drinks into their tea blends, allowing other people to try tea beverages with a twist.
Rose Moscato, pina colada, scotch, and caramel macchiato teas are only some of the flavors that the tea brand offers. Another great offering from A.muse Projects is that it allows customers to create their tea blend, from its base down to its botanicals.
Collaboration Tea
The founders of this tea brand both recognized the growing demand for tea products in Singapore. And so, they established Collaboration Tea to cater to fellow tea lovers with considerations over customized experience and green practices. Their tea products have sachets that are labeled with motivational quotes in front of creative watercolor designs. Their tea bags are also biodegradable, which are suitable for those who do not want to add more environmental waste.
Collaboration Tea offers a wide range of regular tea blends such as Earl Grey, pu-erh, oolong, and chamomile. It also offers fruity and floral tea blends Lychee Martini, Dessert of Roses, Oolong Blossoms, Misty Mind, Minty Meadows, Passion Mansion, and Lemongrass Breeze.
ETTE Tea
ETTE Tea has managed to capture the hearts of the Singaporeans due to the brand’s intriguing quirky brews of local flavors. From time to time, the said tea brand launches different unique tea collections and flavors that can attract customers to buy from them over and over again.
One of the most popular teas in ETTE Tea is Nasi Lemak tea, which is composed of an aromatic mix of houjicha, genmaicha, coconut flakes, dried panda, and dried chili. Another known tea blend from the brand is Mango Sticky Rice that has a blend of genmaicha, black tea, roasted barley, mango dice, and candied coconut.
Gryphon Tea Company
The company’s roots go back to the early 20th century when Lim Kheng Thiam opened a shop that imports quality Chinese tea into Singapore. Come 2006, a family member of the same person opened Gryphon Tea Company as an attempt to start his own venture of tea production and distribution.
After more than ten years, the company is now one of the bestselling tea brands in the market. One range of tea products that the brand offers is sparkling teas. Sparkling teas are cold brewed, sweetened with fruit juices, carbonated, and then stored in glass bottles. Some flavors available are Osmanthus sencha with passionfruit and Earl Grey lavender with strawberry.
Pryce Tea
To effectively veer away Chinese tea products from being associated with traditional tea ceremonies and occasions, the brother of Gryphon Tea’s founder established Pryce Tea in 2012 in Singapore. This tea brand is positioned to offer historical premium Chinese tea products with creative packaging and much more affordable prices.
Pryce Tea has its wood-boxed Majestic Treasures collection that offers tea leaves from major tea-making regions in China. Some of the tea leaves out of this collection includes lychee red tea and glutinous pu-erh blends. Another set of popular picks from Pryce Tea include Vanilla Dragonwell, Ginger Garden, Jasmine Rose, and Vanda Miss Joaquim.
Infusion-de-vie
The tea product offerings of Infusion-de-vie can literally freshen up one’s life. This Singaporean brand does not infuse flavors, additives, or sweeteners to their tea products. Instead, they mix traditional Chinese herbs that are sourced from Taiwanese mountains and package them into pastel-hued tins with distinct labels. Some of these labels include “Restore” for black tea and sun-baked goji barriers, “Replenish” for snow fungus, red dates, and honeysuckle blossoms, and “Renew” for pu-erh with dry-aged tangerine peel.
If you want to know more about the aroma, bitterness, acidity, and sweetness of a specific tea blend, then you may want to head over to the tea brand’s website. Organic cold teas that are packaged in wine-like bottles are also available to get your tea cravings into the next level.
Juan Tea
Juan Tea is also one of the authentic Singaporean tea companies that does not add anything to their herbal brews. The founder of this tea company only combines traditional herbal teas with modern flavors without the use of any preservatives.
Some of the most famous tea blends from Juan Tea include Youthful Red, which is a mix of roselle, French rose, rosehip, apple, and dragon fruit; and Relaxing Blue, which is made from French Rose, butterfly pea flower, lemongrass, peppermint, and jasmine. Other tea products that are available from this tea brand are lychee black tea and glutinous rice pu-erh.
TWG Tea
The luxurious feel and vibes of TWG Tea’s stores and cafes may look like it came from other countries. However, this tea brand is 100% Singaporean. One thing that makes this tea brand special is that its tea product offerings are packed into hand sewn tea bags, which gives off a premium branding compared to other tea brands.
Overall, this tea brand has over 800 tea varieties, numerous tea-related accessories like tea tins, teapots, tea strainers, and tea trays, and other tea-infused sweet treats like fruits tarts and macarons. Even candles with the scent of teas are available for the tea lovers out there.
Pétale Tea
Being creative with the appearance of the tea preparation itself is what makes Pétale Tea standout from the rest of tea brands. Its innovative blooming tea, which is also known as artisan flowering tea, is a type of hand sewn tea ball that is composed of organic green tea and dried flowers. When submerged in hot water, the hand sewn tea ball will then turn into beautiful flowers. The process of preparing tea will never be the same with this tea brand.
Some of the tea brand’s famous tea blends include Antoinette’s Love (globe amaranth, jasmine, marigold), My Fair Lady (jasmine flowers and lily), and Mango Boulevard (marigold and mango).
Buying tea products from these Singaporean tea brands will assure you a great experience when it comes to consuming tea and other related products. Their distinctive take and processes behind processing and packaging tea products will surely entice you to purchase from them again very soon, especially once you have tried their flagship tea blends.
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