India is famous for its excellent tea producing regions, where the likes of Assam, Darjeeling and Nilgiri tea, are grown for tea enjoyers all over the world. However, there is another region, equally exquisite in its quality of tea, whose legacy was shrouded by a natural disaster from which it was never able to recover, and that is Kangra tea.
An interesting new post by our guest writer Soo Choi-Bosman, Transformation Director at Dilmah Benelux. Read her interesting story about ‘Ethical is the new fair’. This month our founder, Merrill J. Fernando, celebrated his 91st birthday and also his 71st anniversary in the tea industry. He is the world’s most
Although technically a herbal-based beverage, ginger tea seems to be growing in popularity in recent years, mainly because of its long history of proposed healing properties. To trace the origins of ginger tea we must first go back several thousands of years to the plant it all started with. The
The story goes that a village in China was experiencing a severe drought and the desperate locals were told to pray to a benevolent dragon that was said to live in a nearby well. Rain started falling from the sky once more and the city renamed itself into Longjing or
Due to the pandemic the world of tea had to adapt like any other business in the world. Tea professional Cortilia Lin from Taiwan sees the rise of bubble tea continue in Asia. Many bubble tea shops have launched alcoholic bubble tea and more people are consuming bubble tea without
Bente from Tanzanian Kilimanjaro Specialty Tea shares her tea stories with us on a regular basis. She is currently working tea from coffee leaves! How is the development of the 9 products of tea from coffee leaves going?The development is completed but I have not really begun with proper marketing. As
We proudly welcome Soo Choi-Bosman, Transformation Director at Dilmah Benelux, as our new guest writer. Read her interesting story about ‘tea packers and tea growers’. Nowadays consumer shows on TV focus on the quality issues surrounding tea. Various tea brands are being examined. In my opinion, an important distinction remains
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