2010: The Teabag Comes Of Age
Monday, February 1st, 2010 Posted in Intl Tea Trade, Tea History | No Comments »Tea is reaching the end of a 50-year cycle of decline and the new decade will mark the moment when everything changed. Let me explain. The rise of convenience which brought the teabag to total domination of the tea market was excellent ...
The Street of Tea: Mincing Lane
Monday, December 21st, 2009 Posted in Tea History | 1 Comment »Reaching from Fenchurch Street south to Great Tower Street, Mincing Lane was a vibrant and aromatic centre for the trading of spices, opium and most importantly tea. Deriving its name from the Anglo-Saxon for nun (minchery), Mincing Lane is a corruption ...
The Indian Tea Research Stations
Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in Indian Tea Industry, Tea History, Tea Places | No Comments »Nestled between the meandering loops of the Tocklai River, just south of Jorhat, a once humble market town turned Cosmopolitan City, sits the Tocklai Experimental Station (TES). Founded in 1911 with just one laboratory and two bungalows to its name the ...
The Best of all losers: Sir Thomas Lipton
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Tea History | 1 Comment »Fondly remembered as ‘the best of all losers’, Sir Thomas Lipton really was the Richard Branson of his day. A marketing genius and part-time adventurer Lipton will always be remembered as the founder of one of the biggest brands in ...
The London Tea Auctions – a history continued…
Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in Tea History | No Comments »The Auctions in London recommenced in 1951/52, with teas arriving from the producing countries around the world. This enabled the Producers to get an indication of the price for the future after the 1939/1945 war, as, of course, the price was ...
Tea and Rationing
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in Tea History | No Comments »In 1940, at the start of the Second World War tea was rationed - initially 2 oz per person per week. The Ministry of Food set up a special division to control and distribute tea to the established Blenders and Dealers in the UK, ...
Twinings To Shed Jobs in UK
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Tea History, Tea in the News | 2 Comments »Twinings is to shed almost 400 UK jobs by moving more of its production overseas. The company is also investing in state-of-the-art, high-speed machinery at its Andover headquarters, and is proposing to close its North Shields factory completely in September 2011. ...
Darjeeling Tea Edges Closer to EU Recognition
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea, Indian Tea Industry, Intl Tea Trade, Tea History, Tea Places | No Comments »The long battle to win recognition for the Darjeeling tea region has taken a significant step forward. Now the region must wait anxiously for six months to see if anyone lodges an objection to the registration of a European GI Mark. The ...
The nature of black tea
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Beginner's Guides to Tea, Tea History | 2 Comments »The state of Assam produces black teaMost people have heard about black tea – but as with many of the tea terms its precise nature may be unclear to many. So here is a handy guide to the product. Black tea is ...
No end in sight for Darjeeling strike
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Indian Tea Industry, Intl Tea Trade, Tea History, Tea Places | 2 Comments »[caption id="attachment_1037" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Darjeeling strike action is affecting tea leaving the area"][/caption] The chances of an early settlement of strike action in Darjeeling are appearing slim after the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha signalled its unhappiness at a proposed olive branch. In a ...
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