Around the World in 80 Days Afternoon Tea

THE WESTIN BAYSHORE SIGNATURE BREAKFAST BLEND

Our proprietary Bayshore Breakfast Signature blend is a unique fusion of O-Five Rare Tea’s ‘Misty Mountain’ Chinese Black Tea, ‘It’s Toast!’ Chinese Oolong, and ‘Chiran Wakoucha’ Japanese Black Tea.

Masterfully mixed by Geoff Sugiyama of O-Five Rare Tea, this boisterous blend evokes walnut tannins, dried citrus peels and toasted malt for a delicious drink to be sipped all year long.

Old Tree White Moonlight

This 2019 harvest hails from the high mountain rainforest of Ba Da Shan in Yunnan, China. The patient process of drying the leaves under moonlight results in a smooth, well-rounded blend with elegant tasting notes of wildflowers, stone fruit and honey.

FOLK BLANCHA

This tea represents Mr. Fogg's visit to Yokohama, Japan, featuring Izumo Bancha—a traditional folk tea once prevalent among Japanese villagers. Crafted from autumn-harvested Yabukita leaves, lightly steamed and roasted, it includes Kawara Ketsumei, a herbal tisane cherished by grandmothers across Japan.

Expect notes of sunflower seeds and toasted barley.

Chiran Shincha

With leaves harvested in Chiran, a small town located in the middle of the Satsuma Peninsula of Kagoshima Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan, this intensely green, well-balanced blend of Kagoshina cultivars yields tasting notes of sweet grass, citrus and umami.

Run by three generations, the Furuichi family farm produces a tea bursting with flavour and a dark verdant intensity that is, in our opinion, unmatched.

Jasmine Pearls

Hand-rolled green tea pearls are scented with jasmine over three nights (when the blossoms are most fragrant) using the traditional method. First, the organic, early spring tea leaves are carefully processed into green tea. They are lightly steamed, then gently rolled into beautiful ‘pearls’ to be carefully stored until the late summer harvest.

Once the jasmine blossoms are ready, they are blended with the tea leaves and left overnight, allowing the delicate flavour of the jasmine to scent the leaves.

Harunocho Genmaicha

Produced by Osada San in Shizuoka Japan, one of Japan’s award-winning tea growers, this fragrant blend is reminiscent of drinking tea at the movies, with a cup in one hand and popcorn in the other. Roasted and popped rice results in a well-balanced sencha that is challenging to over steep.

Hojicha Kirishima

Grown in Kagoshima, Japan by an innovative family of fifth-generation tea farmers, this lightly-caffeinated roasted tea blend boasts a naturally-sweet mouthfeel and toasty notes of roasted rice and caramel.

This tea belongs to the family’s collection of experimental, unorthodox harvests, with leaves grown on rocky soil and nurtured by the Sakurajima volcano, Japan’s most active volcano.

MOUNTAIN GODDESS OF MERCY

Organically grown in Huang Shan, Anhui, China. Tie Guanyin (Iron Guanyin, or Buddhist Goddess of Mercy) is one of the most famous Oolong teas in China. This particular tea is a modern style, lightly oxidized.

Ming Jian GABA

Grown in the well-known tea region of Ming Jian, Taiwan, this fruity GABA oolong is bursting with notes of fruit jam and crafted with organic tea leaves. GABA oolong is produced by withering the leaves in a nitrogen chamber, causing the leaves to produce a higher concentration of GABA.

Jinxuan, the tea cultivar from which it’s made, is sometimes regarded as ‘milky oolong’ because of its smooth texture and sweet, buttery mouthfeel.

Tie Luo Han | TIANXIN MOUNTAIN

Grown on Tianxin Mountain in Wuyi, Fujian, China, this cultivar is said to descend from a 1000-year-old tree located in a gorge called 九龙巢 (9 Dragon Nest), directly under 天心 (Heavenly Heart) cliff. With a rich, full-bodied mouthfeel and a lingering sweet aftertaste, this tea is a smooth option to wind down with after a meal.

THE WESTIN BAYSHORE SIGNATURE BREAKFAST BLEND

Our proprietary Bayshore Breakfast Signature blend is a unique fusion of O-Five Rare Tea’s ‘Misty Mountain’ Chinese Black Tea, ‘It’s Toast!’ Chinese Oolong, and ‘Chiran Wakoucha’ Japanese Black Tea.

Masterfully mixed by Geoff Sugiyama of O-Five Rare Tea, this boisterous blend evokes walnut tannins, dried citrus peels and toasted malt for a delicious drink to be sipped all year long.

Earl Grey

This tea blend breaks the rules as one of O-Five Rare Tea’s few flavoured blends. Blending the organic black tea from Hunan, China, and the cold-pressed Calabrian oil creates a beautifully-scented, enhanced black tea with tasting notes of dark fruit and bergamot.

Rich, versatile, and wholly untraditional, this innovative blend promises to be unlike any other earl grey you’ve experienced.

DARJEELING | JUNGPANA FIRST FLUSH

This tea symbolizes Mr. Fogg's journey from Bombay to Calcutta. Following the British Crown's assumption of Indian governance in 1858, known as the British Raj, Darjeeling's tea plantations flourished to meet the escalating British demand for tea. Darjeeling tea quickly became renowned for its flavour and balance of sweetness and astringency.

This first flush Darjeeling is from one of the most highly regarded estates in the region (Jungpana). Notes of sweet glutinous rice, minerally oyster shell, water chestnut, alfalfa honey and holy basil.

1875 Keemun Maofeng

Keemun (Qimen | 祁門) is one of the most famous black teas in China, and one of the first ones produced in the Qing Dynasty, with the oldest production recorded in 1875. Now, one of the most celebrated tea styles, Keemun was wildly popular in Victorian England as a Chinese import before India became a major tea producer.

With notes of dark chocolate, maple, and caramel, this rich brew was often coupled with a calorie-intensive breakfast

Chiran Wakoucha

Benifuki (べにふうき) is perhaps Japan’s most popular cultivar for black tea. It was originally developed in the 1960s, by crossing an Assamica cultivar (Benihomare) with a Sinensis cultivar that was popular in Darjeeling (MakuraCd86). This cultivar was developed in Kagoshima, not far from
where Furuichi San’s tea grows.

As the energizing black tea blooms, it offers dominant notes of grape-stained oak and a brisk aroma of dried flowers, giving the feeling of cracking open a freshly-used wine barrel.

Kingdom of Colchis

Originating in Bakhvi, Guria, Georgia, this cleverly-titled tea was inspired by the ancient name that this region in Georgia was given. Though Georgia has tea-growing traditions spanning over two centuries, it’s still one of the world’s best kept secrets — though we’re certainly glad that O-Five has caught on and embraced it.

Expect a rich & bold tea that boasts notes of orange zest & cinnamon

Masala Chai

This O-Five Rare Tea Masala Chai is blended with freshly ground spices of cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, ginger, cloves and nutmeg. This organic chai tea is rich and refined, moderately caffeinated and crafted with broken leaf black tea.

Due to its antioxidant content, masala tea is said to boost immunity, making it all the more comforting and lovable.

Pu Er | 2006 Yiwu, Tea Horse Road

A beautiful introduction to the world of aged tea, this ripe Pu Er originates in Yiwu (Yunnan), where the iconic Tea Horse Road begins. Before its journey to Vancouver, the tea is dry-cellared for 15 years in Menghai, allowing the flavour to mature and develop elegantly.

Its grounding, warming energy makes it a magnificent blend to enjoy during the Pacific Northwest’s (never-ending) rainy season.

2019 ALDER LEAF

This tea symbolizes Mr. Fogg's journey from San Francisco to New York. In the 19th century, coffee was America's beverage of choice, with tea gaining popularity only along the coasts. Travelers crossing the country by train, seeking an alternative to coffee & lacking access to expensive English teas, may have turned to local options like Alder tea.

This tisane is crafted from responsibly foraged Pacific Northwest wild alder leaves and buds, processed using black tea techniques learned in Vietnam. It offers notes of pine resin, cherries, and prunes.

Blueberry Leaf

Crafted with wild-foraged blueberry leaves from a 10-hectare family farm in Guria, Western Georgia, this lively blueberry tisane boasts a juicy, fruity flavour without the added fructose sugar. Since it is crafted with plant leaves, this blend is not technically categorized as tea, but its smooth, well-rounded mouthfeel will have you fooled.

Mr. Teniesvili’s farm practices organic agriculture and sustainable foraging, with some of the wild plants as old as 100 years!

Chamomile

Yielding a crisp sweet apple flavour, significantly different than the chamomile flowers grown on the banks of the Nile River where the vast majority originate, this Croatian chamomile cultivar is packed full of fruity, floral nectar.

With anti-inflammatory properties, this organically-grown blend is a great choice for those in need of respite, or a healthful pick-me-up.

Cascadian Peppermint

Grown in Cascadia, Washington State, this vibrant peppermint blend is aromatic and naturally sweet. With a host of health benefits, peppermint serves as a remedy for digestive upsets, sleep issues, congested sinuses, and more.

This Pacific Northwest brew is marvelous to enjoy at any time of day on its own, or with a delightfully sweet, soothing spoonful of our garden-grown Bayshore honey.

Dream Blend

A fusion of Thai, French and American influences, using micro-farmed Thai butterfly pea flowers, Cascadian peppermint and Provence-inspired lavender, it’s as beautiful to look at as it is to drink. Marvel at the transformation that the deep-sea blue Dok Anchan leaves undergo as they soften to a pink sunset while steeping.

Elderflower

This phenomenally rich tisane is vibrant yet soothing. Sustainably harvested by a lovely couple, Silvain & Jacinthe, on their family farm in
Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Southern Quebec, these beautiful flowers taste like Quebec in the spring.

With its uniquely fresh, fruity, green and slightly floral flavours and subtle pear, lychee and tropical nuances.

Organic Vanilla Rooibos

Sweet Madagascar vanilla and rose petals sweeten this organic rooibos. Crafted with natural essential oil, this rich and full-bodied blend takes on a fragrant vanilla aroma, with an opulent, creamy structure on the palate.

A symbol of rebirth, renewal, and longevity, this delicately sweet infusion is best enjoyed on its own while getting carried away in conversation with a long-lost friend.