CarmiƩn Rooibos Distilled Gin

Experience rooibos gin in a brand new, delicious way. CarmiĆ©n joins the cocktail culture with a superior, small-batch South African rooibos gin. Our popular Floral Berry & Citrus Chai rooibos pyramid tea blends have been perfectly distilled into a light gin with beautifully aromatic notes and flavours. All set to become your favourite cocktail on…

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Festive Season Deliveries

Christmas is coming, get your gift shopping done in time!               An update on our Festive Season Deliveries! Our teams have been working around the clock to get all the Black Friday orders out, so we’re taking some time off over the holidays to rest and recharge for what…

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Taste the good life

Carmién Tea and TEEKANNE Community Project: healthy lifestyle awareness and education. November 2020 saw the start of our ongoing joint community project between CarmiĆ©n Tea, TEEKANNE and the Mouton Foundation. The goal of the project is to promote healthy nutrition and raise awareness for living a healthy lifestyle, not only for Carmién Tea employees but…

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CarmiƩn Celebrates Successful Rooibos2Muisbos: Post Event Press Release

CarmiĆ©n Celebrates Successful Rooibos2Muisbos MTB Event Words by Seamus Allardice. The 2020 Rooibos2Muisbos by CarmiĆ©n cycling event brought over 900 riders to the Piekenierskloof area, on the 14th of November. Taking part in three events, over two distances, they were treated to cool weather, spectacular scenery and warm hospitality by a region eager to welcome…

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Role of rooibos in managing diabetes becoming clearer, experts say

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) says an estimated 4.5 million South African adults are likely to have diabetes. Original article published on 3 November on IOL by the African News Agency. Decades of local and international research into rooibos’s anti-diabetic properties confirms its effectiveness at improving sugar levels when used in conjunction with a healthy…

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Gifts of goodness

Find the perfect rooibos gift box for everyone on your list Get your gift shopping done early this year to avoid the festive rush. From our unique, newly launched gin boxes to curated boxes filled with rooibos goodness, we’ve got gifts for everyone on your list. Click here to browse the full selection or find…

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Rooibos and your mental health

Learn more about the health benefits of rooibos tea in celebration of World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October. With the ever-changing and often increasing stressors of day-to-day life, it is more important than ever to take care of ourselves and our mental health. Our favourite form of self-care is, of course, rooibos…

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Rooibos2Muisbos 2020 by CarmiƩn Tea: Press Release

The annual Rooibos2Muisbos event takes place on Saturday 14 November. Join CarmiĆ©n as we welcome mountain bikers to Piekenierskloof. Written by Seamus Allardice The second edition of the Rooibos2Muisbos mountain biking event is excited to have CarmiĆ©n Rooibos Tea as title sponsor for the 2020 event and is set to showcase the hidden beauty of…

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Visit the CarmiƩn Tea Shop at De Tol Farm Deli

Experience Rooibos like never before at the CarmiĆ©n Tea shop This year has brought many changes for us, including the opening of our very own CarmiĆ©n Tea Shop at the De Tol Farm Deli located on the Piekenierskloof Pass on the N7 to Citrusdal. This shop has been a dream of owner Mientjie Mouton for…

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The Best Nursing Tea for Breastfeeding Moms

CarmiĆ©n Nursing tea is our most popular all-natural rooibos tea for nursing moms. Safe for mom and baby Stimulates and increases the production of natural mother’s milk. The best milk for your baby. Mother’s milk. Will also assist in weight loss. Vanilla and Aniseed give a smooth, slightly liquorice flavour. 3-6 cups recommended per day.…

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Doing A Little Good In Mandela Month

For Mandela day we teamed up with the Mouton foundation putting together winter care packages. Each package consisted of body wash, a blanket or slippers, a wash cloth, baked goods and tea. These packages were delivered to the elders in our community. We are grateful for the great work the Mouton Foundation is doing in…

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Drink Rooibos For A Stronger Heart

A recently completed study at the University of Columbia, found that COVID-19 poses a significant risk to those suffering from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension as a result of the additional stress that the respiratory disease places on the heart. Thus, heart patients are more likely to develop severe symptoms and complications from COVID-19. In…

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Carmien Healthy Living: Gut health

CarmiĆ©n rooibos tea has a multitude of healthy benefits, most of which we are unaware of, and can beneficially impact our gut and brain health. The gut is often called the ā€˜second brain’. Gut bacteria affect brain health, so changing our gut bacteria may serve well to improve our brain health. The importance of gut…

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Carmien Healthy Living: Stress Management

Stress is normal and good as it helps us complete a task, survive danger, and focus faster. Stress, however, also affects our physical and mental health. Chronic stress and stressful thoughts have a detrimental effect on our health, both physical and mental. When we are stressed our body releases the stress hormone, cortisol, through the…

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How do we stay safe?

Between social media and the news, we are a flooded with a mix of maybe’s and guestimates, while advice, activities to keep busy, and recipes abound. Even our email greetings have changed from ā€˜Keep well’ and ā€˜Kind regards’ to ā€˜Stay safe’. How do we stay safe? The one consistent message is this: Now, more than…

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A good time to make new friends

                            Finally! An exciting new, must-stop shop along the N7. One visit and you will keep you coming back for more. It not only offers a hub of honest food, exciting pairing experiences, quality artisan products, an excellent wine selection, but our…

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CarmiƩn Tea goes cycling

Ever heard of 2 boxes of flower teas becoming famous? Well, it’s something like that. First, they became the base blends for our CarmiĆ©n Rooibos gins. Then we redesigned the boxes to match our unique G & Tea experience, bought our own pyramid machine (beautiful blends need beautiful teabags), and 2 teas became a whole…

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Carmien Tea Goes Green

  Consumer habits are under intense scrutiny and nothing seems safe anymore, not even the good old teabag. Plastics are the hot topic of the day. Microplastics, to be more specific. So hot that we took a long hard look at our own manufacturing and materials because, as always, we strive to bring our customers…

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New! Carmien Pyramid Tea Range

CarmiĆ©n Tea takes the art of tea drinking another step forward Coarse cut tea leaves blended with floral, fruity and spicy elements beautifully showcased in see-through pyramid teabags. Direct contact with hot water allows for better and quicker infusion. A taste and flavour explosion that sets the pace for a new era of tea enjoyment.…

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Fashion, Function or Familiarity

    What serves us best? Turning over more than a new leaf is our business, from great teas to great new packaging. It’s clean. Fresh. Fashionable without giving up function. Easily identifiable to our customers without losing its old familiarity. As with any process of change, it was at the same time exciting and…

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News from the farm

As you know by now, conservation farming is our heart. As always, we are looking for the best products, the best equipment and the most effective way to combat disease so that we can keep supplying top quality rooibos direct from the farm to you, our customer. The harvesting season is at hand but first…

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CarmiƩn Rooibos Gin

G & TEA like you’ve never experienced! Rooibos tea has never been more trendy. With fynbos gin no longer a stranger to gin lovers, distilling our favourite rooibos blends, Vintage Romance and Amber Royalty , with gin was inevitable. CarmiĆ©n joins the cocktail culture with a superior, small batch South African Rooibos Gin . All…

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CarmiƩn Handmade Soap

Rooibos. So much more than just a cup of tea. Always a story worth telling, with new chapters added daily. And who doesn’t love a good story, especially a soapy? Listen to this one! Pure romance. All you have to do is add your own candles… We took our rooibos to the Storytellers of the…

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The ultimate winter warmer

It’s winter. Cold. Maybe you have the fire going already. All that’s missing is some comforting chocolate. Delicious, warm, CarmiĆ©n Rooibos Drinking Chocolate. We have no words. We’re totally hooked on it ourselves! Premium cacao with pure rooibos, dark chocolate, just enough sugar and a touch of Kalahari salt. All you have to do, is…

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CSR Report Back

The Conscience of CarmiĆ©n Tea Every company knows the value of matching the right person with the right position. More than that, a person who truly shares the vision and values of your company. Madele Mouton, recently appointed to the Fairtrade Africa Board (https://africafairtradeconvention.com/) as representative for Southern African countries, has the same heart for…

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Wine, Food and Tea pairings

When last have you had a really good time? Lurking in the back of our minds is always more than just tea. Like a great experience. Worth more than your best purchase. Our vision has always been to draw our customers and clients into an experience and not just sell them a product. As our…

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News from the farm

A very very dry summer has come and gone. Finally, everything lifted. Our expectations, our optimism, and our joy broke out in abundance at the great downpours we experienced recently. Once again it is time to plant. This time, we have our very own rooibos seedlings amongst the ones grown for us by our regular…

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Madiba Day

100 years. What did Madiba leave us? A legacy of values. A love for children. A challenge. ā€œIt is in your hands to make the world a better placeā€. It is that time again. To commemorate and to celebrate and to ask ourselves, what are we doing to make the world a better place? Making…

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Make her day special!

Life is about celebrating every moment and cherishing what we have. Like mothers. We are here to help you make her day special with a choice of great gifts! Choose between 30% off on a long lasting cast iron teapot on its stand in a range of beautiful colours or refresh her tea collection and…

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Tea with a difference

CarmiĆ©n tea has gone cold. Ice cold in fact. Why? Enter CARMIƉN ICE TEA! With a difference…A unique ALL NATURAL ice tea. No sugar. No calories. No caffeine. 100% natural ingredients. No preservatives. Refreshing, hydrating, pure deliciousness. Hot brewed for extra taste and flavor. Now in two Great Flavours: CarmiĆ©n Green Rooibos with Camomile,Ginger &…

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