OXALIS 2024 / 2025

2 As for other news, we’ve really gone to town on the product range. To begin with, the selection of loose-leaf tea has been broadened with some new blends, namely Early Morning Tea, Five o’clock Tea and Darjeeling FTGFOP1 Second Flush, which boasts a great composition, coming hot on the heels of the first harvest. ThisassortmentistoppedoffbyDarjeelingCastletonFTGFOP1CH Inbetween, Darjeeling Margaret’s Hope FTGFOP1CH First Flush and Black Tea Snail from China. Also making a welcome return is Kabusecha from Japan. Then there are the flavoured varieties. So many ideas worked out wonderfully that they can’t all get an honourable mention here, but the sixteen below really stand out. Black tea: Bellini, Breakfast of Champions and Black Raspberry. Green tea: Blueberry-Linden, Jasmine-Mint and Iced Tea Mimosa; fruit tea: Cotton Candy Plum Cake, Mint Praline, Semolina Pudding, Sleeping Beauty Organic, Home-made Punch and Flickering Flames; iced tea: Hugo Spritz and Liquorice. The cherry on the cake is a semi-fermented Milky Jasmine Oolong. Moving on to coffee, a change is happening to the range from September this year, in the form of a BASE series of ten well-established unflavoured varieties. The exact types in it will alter over the following twelve months if we judge there’s a highly successful harvest from another plantation from the same country, but they currently comprise: 1. Brazil Santos Sul de Minas 2. Colombia Excelso Huila 3. El Salvador Santa Cristina Honey 4. Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 5. Guatemala Hoja Blanca 6. Peru SHB Organic 7. Costa Rica Palmichal 8. Decaffeinated coffee (newly from Brazil) 9. India Riverdale 10. Mexico Organic Notably, Marvin Barrantes fromCosta Rica is going to supersede the Palmichal farm at the end of the year. Any further modifications to the list shall be announced in advance. Still very much part of the catalogue are our two blends for espresso - Victoria and Coffee Break, now brought together under the name BLEND for the sake of simplicity. The third part of OXALIS’ coffee assortment concerns, of course, flavoured varieties. This has been expanded through the addition of five types launched under the banner AROMA: Pumpkin Spice, Salted Caramel, Hazelnut Macaron, Blueberry Muffin and Nougat. Turning to exclusive coffee, we’ve decided to set up a group for examples that are both limited in harvest and in the quantity imported. These aren’t listed in the catalogue and are sold only while supplies last. Called BOUTIQUE, the arrival of such products shall be publicly announced within a suitable time frame. Regarding our Cool Drinks ready-made teas and coffees, each shall be packaged in smaller bottles of 0.2 litre from September. As for accessories, there’s some news in that regard, too. For Matcha fans, we’ve added two new bowls and whisk stands. The assortment is extended by three tin caddies, two of them featuring a Christmas design. Coffee tableware additionally benefits from pure white cups and saucers in three sizes, a filter for a mug that’s also applicable for tea, a pot for water and another with a dripper. Novel gift packs include two versions with organic Tatra tea, a large advent calendar (absent from the catalogue last year) and a smaller one, a tin caddy containing pyramid bags of the Magic of Christmas tea and a bag with two items decorated with a Christmas motif, as well as another with two flavoured coffees. The aforementioned Flickering Flames tea is going to be available in a tin caddy with a Christmas label, as are two different gift packs with tea from the Indian Tea Studio. A bag with a pair of items featuring a design with birds and flowers is being prepared for the spring and summer. We’re sure you shall discover some new favourites from among the additions to the catalogue. Wishing you good fortune in the season ahead. On behalf of the OXALIS team, Petr Zelik Slušovice, August 2024