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We are proud to serve and sell handcrafted Rishi Teas. All are 100% organic and fair trade, imported directly from the source to deliver the freshest teas you will ever taste in North America. Rishi Teas contain no pesticides, chemical fertilizers or artificial ingredients. Tea growers are paid fair, living wage prices, creating an opportunity for the tea-drinker to make a difference in the global marketplace with our pocketbooks! Savor these exceptional teas and feel good about their origin-for yourself and for the people who tended their growth. Join us to learn more about the health benefits of tea and taste these exciting teas for yourself at our monthly tea tastings. Yum!
Featuring 100% Organic Rishi Teas
Visit the Rishi Tea website for more information.
~ The Whites ~
Silver Needle This sublime white tea contains only the silvery, down-covered buds harvested in the early spring. Known in China as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, it is the most sought-after white tea and only harvested for a few days each year in Fujian, China. The white tea bushes of northern Fujian were domesticated from wild tea trees discovered more than 1000 years ago. Silver Needle has a clear, light golden infusion with a rich body, unique savory aroma, and a sweet mellow finish.
Tin Price: $11.00
Peach Blossom White Heavenly is the only word worthy of this antioxidant wellspring of white tea infused with juicy peach, tangerine and aromatic blossoms. White tea is the least processed of teas and in Peach Blossom one can taste the milder, sweeter finish of what tastes more like a spirit in a cup than a tea. The fruit infusion will lift you.
Tin Price: $12.00
~ The Botanicals ~
Rishi's Serene Blend Well, you couldn't come to a massage center and not be offered a botanical infusion called Serene, now could you? This complex, comforting blend of chamomile and jasmine blossoms mixed with other botanicals (like lavender and mint) impart relaxing and refreshing energies. Serene has a golden colored infusion with lofty notes of citrus blossoms and lavender. Its sweet liquor has a honey-like character. Ahhhhhhh, deep breath.
Tin Price: $8.00
Jamaica Red Bush This is one of the most complex, exciting of our Rishi blends. Hibiscus Sabdariffa, more commonly known as "Jamaica Flowers" is blended with Rooibos and Honey Bush to create this robust, fruity deep red infusion. Jamaica Flowers, known to be high in vitamin C, combine with the anti-oxidant qualities of Honey Bush and Rooibos to make this a health power house as well as an exciting beverage with a red infusion, strong and fruity body that finishes with complex notes of mango, passion fruit, and rare island spices.
Tin Price: $11.00
Sweet Mint Rishi blends Washington State organic peppermint, other organic spices, and the essential oils of basil and clove to produce Sweet Mint. Following Ayurvedic principles and the science of aromatherapy, Rishi's master blenders have created an infusion that evokes relaxation and focus. Sweet Mint is intensely aromatic with a full body and spicy, sweet finish.
Tin Price: $9.00
Lemon Spice Spicy ginger and zesty lemongrass are blended based on an ancient Ayurvedic cold and flu remedy. But the rainforest spice, citrus, and basil blend tastes nothing like medicine! This tantalizing tea stirs the senses while strengthening the immune system.
Tin Price: $9.00
~ The Greens ~
Emerald Lily Crisp and fresh organic green tea with notes of toasted chestnut and wild orchid. Emerald Lily can only be made for a brief time twice a year during the early spring and beginning of winter when the cool mists and clouds rest on the high mountain peaks of this 1300 -year old ancient Chinese tea forest. This tea is sweet, smooth and unique.
Tin Price: $11.00
Jasmine Pearl The intoxicating scent from this calming green tea is created by an infusion process more than nine centuries old. The most tender green tea leaves and buds are hand rolled into small pearls and mixed with fragrant jasmine blossoms. The tea absorbs the essence of the fresh flowers making the pearls sweet and powerfully aromatic. Jasmine Pearl is a confluence of the tea's clear liquor and rich accents of sweet chestnut with the aroma of heady jasmine.
Tin Price: $15.00
Green Tea Mint Green Tea Mint is a soothing blend of toasty green tea and aromatic organic peppermint. Its flavor is mellow and smooth with notes of chocolate, roasted barley and heady mint. This invigorating tea will sharpen your mental acuity and lift your spirits.
Tin Price: $9.00
~ The Blacks ~
Pu-erh Ginger According to traditional Chinese medicine, Pu-erh tea has a warm and potent property. Today, Chinese researchers report that Pu-erh is the most efficacious of all teas for weight loss and cholesterol reduction. Blending ginger, orange peel, and Pu-erh tea using guidelines developed in the 16th century by a leading Chinese doctor, Rishi has created a blend with zesty notes of ginger and citrus which complement the rich, earthy flavors of Pu-erh. This blend is medicinal in nature, and wonderfully tasty! If only American medicines were this delicious.
Tin Price: $11.00
Citron Oolong Rishi's master blenders reached back centuries to the ancient practice of infusing tea leaves with real fruits and flowers to create Citron Oolong. This artisanal blend brings together high-grown oolong tea, rare blossoms, and succulent citrus to create a refreshing, rejuvenating tea redolent with fresh orange and a hint of rose high notes.
Tin Price: $9.00
Golden Yunnan This certified organic black tea is made from the ancient tea trees of Jingmai Mangjing. It has a deep red infusion with a molasses like sweetness and malty finish. Our organic Golden Yunnan black tea has big golden buds, uniform shaped leaves and a wonderfully full flavored with a rich body favored by black tea lovers.
Tin Price: $11.00
Earl Grey This blend has a rich history dating back to the 19th century Sino-British trade of opium, tea, silk, and porcelain. Earl Grey is a British classic, AND American's favorite tea. Rishi's blend combines organic black tea and essential oil pressed from bergamot citrus fruits. Often complimented as the best Earl Grey ever, Rishi's uber-fresh blend will fill your senses like very few Earl Greys do.
Tin Price: $9.00
Rishi Masala Chai Rishi's Chai blend is based on traditional Southern Indian blending methods and is almost as beautiful to the eye as it is exhilarating to the taste buds. Rishi Masala Chai has a robust body with a spicy, sweet flavor. This tea will take us all over the map, from China to Australia to India, and Eastern Europe!
Tin Price: $10.00
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Caffe Ibis is a coffee roaster set on making coffee drinking a sensual high and an ethical rush! These complex coffees are sure to please every coffee drinker, from those who love coffees characterized by refreshing brightness to those who savor chocolaty depth in their steaming brews. These double and triple certified coffees are 100% organic, fair trade, and when possible, certified bird-friendly by the Smithsonian Institute. If you believe, as we do, that the personal is political you will feel confident that drinking Caffe Ibis is one step toward shaping the kind of global economy that is fair, environmentally responsible, and a celebration of the deliciously diverse world-wide, bounty!
Featuring 100% Organic, Fair Trade & Bird-Friendly Caffe Ibis Coffees
Visit the Caffe Ibis website for more information.
Mexican Chiapas: Our lightest, brightest coffee. This is the coffee you'll want to drink iced, or hot on a sunny morning filled with vibrancy and light. Or, on a day when you're reminiscing about the sunny days of summer. Enjoy its subtle, spicy aroma, light body, light acidity, and clean, smooth finish. Taste a hint of chocolate and nuts.
Decaf Mexican Chiapas: You'll love this Swiss Water Processed Mexican Chiapas. It's light and bright, and you can rest assured that your coffee has been decaffeinated in the safest way possible. We can't tell the difference between decaf and regular.
Peruvian Rainforest: This comfort food of coffees is grown on the eastern slopes of the northern Andean Rainforest. It has a delicate acidity, medium body and a delightful, subtle sweetness. The floral overtones are unmistakable!
Columbian Incan Harvest: Mmmmmmm…Columbian Incan Harvest is likely to become your everyday coffee, cherished for its consistency and good, solid body. But, you also won't miss its brightness, sweetness, a floral aroma, with a smooth finish.
Guatemalan Forest: Grown in the mountains overlooking stunning Lake Atitlan and colourful Mayan villages, this light to medium-bodied coffee is lively in the cup, slightly sweet, and aromatic. You can almost hear the deep forest song birds saying thank you for saving their forest by choosing this bright coffee!
Costa Rica Monteverde: Mmmmmmm, imagine awaking in the Monteverde Cloud Forest to the smell of this rich, dark-roasted, medium-bodied coffee (yes, someone very nice got up before you to start the coffee), tropical birds and monkeys call in the distance. You'll love this coffee's sweetness and its complexity. You'll find yourself devising ways to get yourself south to the tropical wonderland of its origin.
Mayan Sunrise: Enjoy this blend created by Caffe Ibis roasters. It combines light and dark-roasted coffees to make a complex, smooth coffee that finishes with a touch of sweetness. Wildly aromatic. Yum!
Aztec Dark: This hearty blend of South and Central American coffee beans is being treated to a bit darker roast and they stand up beautifully! So beautifully, in fact, Aztec Dark gives our most popular coffee--Sumatra Dark--some competition among true blue coffee drinkers. You'll find Aztec Dark complex and tasty, but light and bright rather than syrupy and rich, without a hint of the "burn" that dark-roast coffee drinkers love. Smooth, very smoooooth.
Decaf Aztec Dark: Enjoy the Swiss Water Decaffeinated version of this luscious, dark-roasted, medium-bodied coffee. You'll find it smooth, slightly sweet, earthy, and best of all, bird friendly!
Cafe Femenino: Renaissance is proud and fortunate to offer this very special organic Fair Trade coffee. Café Femenino begins with beans from woman-owned and operated farms along the Incan trail in the Peruvian Andes. This women's coop represents a growing opportunity for world-wide coffee drinkers to enjoy our passion while creating living wage jobs and community resources in the Coffeelands. On top of its Fair Trade goodness, taste the subtle brightness, fruit notes, aromatic, medium body, and clean finish of this fine organic coffee.
Timor: The first taste you'll notice in this delicious brew is the sweetness unique to Timor's coffees. You may detect a fruity highlight as well. But fear not, the rich, syrupy characteristic of Indonesian coffees is there, too, making this a full, complex cup that will delight you.
Vanilla Nut: We're happy to be offering this 100% organic coffee to our guests who enjoy flavoured coffees. Try this medium bodied coffee with the finest Madagascar vanilla and rich, savory hazelnut. Our Vanilla Nut has no sweetener, but you'll taste the natural sweetness coaxed perfectly from the coffee bean in the roasting process. A splash of half & half and this coffee becomes dessert!
Highland Sumatra Dark Roast: This Renaissance staff favorite is organically grown and processed in Indonesia. It is roasted to a light, caramely French Roast to produce a full bodied, lightly acidic, rich, smooth coffee. Ahhhhhhh, try this on a lazy, languid day and imagine the heady things that will happen in your life.
Decaf Highland Sumatra: Enjoy this syrupy, full-bodied decaf for its rich flavor, thanks to the Swiss water decaffeination process designed to remove all the caffeine and leave all the flavor. In addition to its smooth body, you'll taste earthy notes and a dark finish. Mmmmmmmmmm…
New Guinea Estate: This rich, full bodied coffee is bright, with intoxicating aromatics. Grown in the near-perfect soil and climate of the South Pacific Island of Papua New Guinea, this coffee will win you over to the superior coffees of Indonesia and the South Pacific Ocean.
Ethiopian Arabian Night: Africa's first certified organic fair trade and shade grown coffee! This is a dark roast with a medium body. First, be wowed by its earthy aroma, then savor its sweet and spicy taste with a hint of blackberry. This Ethiopean Arabian Night has a piquant finish.
French Roast: This delicious classic was roasted in the traditional French Roast style. An all-time favorite, it is rich, caramely with spice notes, bitter-sweet tang and a clean, striking finish. Yum!
Decaf French Roast: Just like our regular French Roast this classic coffee was roasted in the traditional French Roast style. It is rich, caramely with spice notes, bitter-sweet tang and a clean, striking finish. All this and none of the caffeine!
Espresso Roast: For those who love a sharp, clean draw from the espresso machine in your life, choose this classic roast made especially for espresso beverages. You'll find Espresso Roast sings with the clear high notes, spiciness, and medium body appreciated by espresso aficionados.
* All take-home bags of Caffe' Ibis Coffees are $11.38
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Across the Strait, off the northeast shore of Vancouver Island there is a chocolate-maker on rural Denman Island making silky, organic chocolate bars. Everyday the Renaissance staff gazes north as though looking off to Valhalla, imaging a mystical trip to visit the Island in person, and meet the kind masters of bittersweet euphoria.
Denman Island Chocolate Bars are made with certified organic ingredients-bittersweet Belgian chocolate (with a high-55% or 70%--cocoa mass content) freshly toasted hazelnuts, dark espresso beans, candied ginger, tangy dried raspberries, and pure natural mint and orange essences. The chocolate in these bars are characterized by an intense, slightly sweet flavor that is rich, smooth, and clean.
But that's just the beginning. This chocolate plays well with others. For instance, when teamed with organic hazelnuts, or zesty organic ginger, this chocolate soars to create a bar that the chocolate-lover will immediately recognize as one to be slowly savored.
Anyone sailing north, toward Denman Island, kindly contact the Renaissance staff about passenger space.
Featuring 100% Organic Denman Island Chocolates
Visit the Denman Island Chocolates website for more information.
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