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2 days ago
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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
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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Blending, a two dimensional art entering the fourth dimension

john snell

Jan 4
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 outturn...

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Tea and the Soviets, an Azerbaijani heritage!

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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Tea, sugar, age, covid and oil: A Mauritian tea story.

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 i...

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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 th...

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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 e...

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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; t...

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