john snell
The fear of loss, phantoms and lessons learned from both
The Fear It all starts with a dry cough and, well, we all know the options but eventually one takes the test and hey presto, after being...
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john snell
- Apr 11
- 5 min
Tea and sustainability. Focus on the fundamentals!
I am an exasperated onlooker, when it comes to sustainability efforts in the tea and other commodity industries. Yes, I have sat on a...
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john snell
- Feb 23
- 8 min
The black tea box we built and finding our "Houdini" moment.
Maybe it's because my taste buds are shot or my memory or both but the classic seasonal teas don't taste quite like they used to or, at...
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john snell
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Freight Boom, a gold rush for some but not for all.
This week the Freightos Baltic Index shows a dip in container rates, Hooray! But wait, still 320% over a year ago and still a gazillion %...
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john snell
- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
Is Tea trying too hard?
Every time you see an advert for a tea (CS or otherwise) that purports to protect or deliver an antidote for a clinical condition or...
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john snell
- Aug 11, 2021
- 5 min
What's good for the goose.. the ethics of profit and optics
Every time a story about the marginal returns of tea farmers (not excluding other products but I am a tea chap!) I wonder at how we ever...
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john snell
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
Out of the ashes of conflict, the organic rebirth of a disrupted tea origin
The Portuguese, responsible for the introduction of tea to Britain and spawning a global revolution in drinking habits, were also...
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john snell
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min
"A puppy is not just for Christmas" nor is tea! A 365 day commitment.
The International Tea Day was successfully and impressively celebrated/recognized by Governments, Tea bodies and companies the world...
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john snell
- Apr 21, 2021
- 4 min
"Something is wrong in the state of Denmark or The chasm between global tea production and consumers
Firstly, apologies to Denmark. I love the country and the inhabitants, I have met, but the phrase is apt in that it talks to a troubling...
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john snell
- Mar 26, 2021
- 3 min
(N) Ever Given proves that the best laid plans can run aground!
I was in the middle of writing my next dit and then this came across the airwaves, or more correctly across the Suez! Now whether this...
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john snell
- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
The Clash foresaw the plight of Kenyan tea harvesting back in 1982
"Should I stay or should I go?" could have been written to describe the quandary of the Kenyan tea producer and the decision to move from...
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john snell
- Feb 23, 2021
- 3 min
Georgia, The oldest new tea destination
Ask people where tea is grown and penny to a pound they will not mention Georgia, the republic of not the state! Ask them to point it out...
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john snell
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
Blending, a two dimensional art entering the fourth dimension
When I started in the tea industry, the art or science (if some are to be believed) of blending was focused on consistent product...
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john snell
- Nov 30, 2020
- 3 min
Tea and the Soviets, an Azerbaijani heritage!
As the conflict in the caucus area of Nagorno-Karabakh reaches, what we all hope will be, a longer lasting peace, I suspect that this is...
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john snell
- Oct 28, 2020
- 3 min
Tea, sugar, age, covid and oil: A Mauritian tea story.
If you have never visited Mauritius then you should! Sitting at the bottom and left quadrant of the Indian ocean , this slice of Africa...
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john snell
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Tea, the 364 days between International days of recognition
International Tea Day is like a new puppy at Christmas, too easy to ignore during the rest of the year, yet we need to understand this 24...
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john snell
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
ICED TEA, COVID 19 AND PLATO
I am probably not alone at viewing the growing COVID19 statistics in the US and feeling somewhat perplexed (ok , I am being polite) at...
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john snell
- Apr 13, 2020
- 3 min
Whose fault is it? Not mine! Why the Tea industry struggles for balance.
The tea community is very much like the investor community or the home owner community, they all believe it is their God given right to...
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john snell
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
The silver lining COVID 19 for the tea industry
Is it too much to suppose that there will be a silver lining to the current pandemic, sweeping the Globe? Personally, I don't think so;...
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