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Tasting Adventure’s in Tea Flights

You can sample flights of wine, beer, and cider—so why not tea?

The wine flights offered by the Loudoun County vintners surrounding them first inspired Hillary and David Coley, the owners of Dominion Tea in charming, small-town Purcellville, Virginia, to create tea flights that customers could sample in their retail shop.

“Tea flights are one of our biggest draws,” says Hillary. “It gives people an easy way to introduce themselves to new flavors or—in the case of some dedicated tea drinkers—force their friends to try their favorites.” While they offer packaged cookies and scones from a local baker, the shop focuses on encouraging customers—both tea newbies and

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