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I am an exasperated onlooker, when it comes to sustainability efforts in the tea and other commodity industries. Yes, I have sat on a...

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...

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 %...

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...

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...

The Portuguese, responsible for the introduction of tea to Britain and spawning a global revolution in drinking habits, were also...

The International Tea Day was successfully and impressively celebrated/recognized by Governments, Tea bodies and companies the world...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

When I started in the tea industry, the art or science (if some are to be believed) of blending was focused on consistent product...

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...

If you have never visited Mauritius then you should! Sitting at the bottom and left quadrant of the Indian ocean , this slice of Africa...

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...

I am probably not alone at viewing the growing COVID19 statistics in the US and feeling somewhat perplexed (ok , I am being polite) at...

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...

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;...