Enjoy sipping tea with Detroit's own Intu Tea.

With unique ingredients and creative combinations, Mary Jones’ Intu teas are full of intriguing flavors. But just as intriguing as the teas themselves are the stories and inspirations behind them.

1. Balance
Despite having just three ingredients, Jones says blending this green tea took some time. “I could not get that darn tea balanced,” Jones says. “I used that word balanced so much I said ‘What the heck, that’s what I’m going to name it.’”
Ingredients: Sencha green tea, lime leaves, lemongrass

2. Garden Tea
Brewed exclusively for The Whitney, Jones says she drew inspiration for this herbal tea from the mansion’s garden. “[The garden] there has a calming effect,” Jones says. “It has a gentleness about it.”
Ingredients: Hibiscus, Egyptian chamomile, cinnamon, rosehip, ginger, peppermint

3. Peach Apricot
This black tea doesn’t shy away from its fruit flavors. “I’d had peach teas and apricot teas, but they were never full-bodied,” Jones says. “I wanted to be able to distinguish the two [main] fruits in there.”
Ingredients: Black tea, peach, apricot, papayas, blackberry, lime leaves, calendula, and
sunflower petals

4. Redbird
Named in honor of her late husband’s love of birds, Jones says Redbird is now her top-selling tea. “My husband passed four years ago,” Jones says. “We were married 31 years … Redbird has done more for me than any other tea.”
Ingredients: Cinnamon, cloves, orange, lemon, hibiscus, pomegranate peel, lemongrass

5. All For You
Anyone can drink this herbal tea, Jones says, but she created it with women in mind. “I should have named it ‘All For Us,’” Jones says. “Everybody should be drinking rooibos, but for women’s health, rooibos is very nice.”
Ingredients: Rooibos, hibiscus, lemongrass, ginger, rosehip, apple, sunflower, passion flower, raspberry, strawberry, kiwi rose, raspberry leaves

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