SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO
reinvent the wheel.

Many of us tea drinkers grew up on homogenised tea dust blends thrown into dunking bags made of microplastics and believed this was real tea. We then added milk and sugar and drowned out what little tea taste there was to be savoured. How deprived we all were! We never had the privilege of appreciating the transitioning appearance and aroma of whole tea leaves at the pre-brew and post-brew stages, and the transitioning flavours as different compounds release with each infusion.

Fortunately tea drinkers around the world are slowly but surely waking up to what truly is good tea, and we are happy to be a part of that movement. With all the unique compounds in a whole tea leaf that are released at different temperatures and at different infusion times, it can be a fun social activity to try to pin down the complex flavours and aromas that tease the senses. Many tea companies use variations of a tea flavour wheel to help along with this, but we at Mayday Teas feel the existing tea flavour wheels out there are somewhat underwhelming. So we have done something different. We have created a Periodic Table of Tea Flavours and Aromas, free to download below.

“This is original and really, really well done.”

Dan Bolton, Founder & Editor,
Tea Journey Magazine



“Bravo for stepping outside of the wheel plan that was innovative when created for wine, but has been adopted by other industries without consideration for how it’s really used.”

Marzi Pecen, Instructor,
The Specialty Tea Institute