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High Country Huckleberry

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$7.94 $11.85 In stock

Category: Black Tea

High Country Huckleberry delivers mountain high berry goodness in every sip. Huckleberries taste akin to blueberries, but with a wild, hard-to-pin down quality. Fruitiness sits front and center, without overwhelming the tea. Huckleberry's sweet and tart notes perfectly complement the black teas in this blend: sweet in the front, with a clean, crisp finish.

For those of us lucky enough to roam the Montana woods in late summer, stumbling on a patch of fresh huckleberries always feels like good fortune. So tasty! Bears love them too, so stay alert, and leave some huckleberries for the next hungry visitor.

Enjoy High Country Huckleberry as an early morning wake-up, a midday pick-me-up, or chilled on a hot summer day. Our customers especially love Huckleberry fogs, with cream and honey - that berry note sits perfectly in the mix.

Huckleberries grow in a particular ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest—and it's shrinking. They prefer high elevations, acidic soil, and partial shade: in other words, a Rocky Mountain evergreen forest. Efforts to grow them commercially have failed. Read about the precarious relationship between bears, berries, bees, and humans and our approach to huckleberry's scarcity and our tea.

A made in Montana tea.

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Alexander F. ★★★★★

I was expecting a generic berry tea but this actually tastes like real huckleberries, wild and a little tart rather than just sweet. The fruitiness stays front and center without burying the black tea base, which I appreciate. Already on my second tin.

Joseph C. ★★★★★

The tart berry flavor really comes through without being overpowering, and it steeps into a deep, rich red that smells like a mountain hike. I've been drinking it every afternoon since it arrived, and it's the fruitiest black tea I've found in a long while.

Amelia ★★★★★

I keep going back for another cup because that berry note is so bright and wild, almost like a fresh handful of huckleberries rather than a dried tea. It brews up smooth with no bitterness, even when I get distracted and let it steep a few extra minutes.