Ceylon / Sri Lanka
Assam, India
Japan
Taiwan
Nepal
China
Kenya
Egypt
South Africa
Tea Craft: Growing the Tea Bush
May 17 , 2022
Tea cultivation is a modern science - new bushes are propagated from the best tea bushes, creating ‘clonals’ - cultivated variants or cultivars for...
Tea Craft: The Different Types of Tea
May 17 , 2022
It’s remarkable that so many different types of ‘cup of tea’ come from the same plant – the Camelia Sinensis. Black and green tea are the most dru...
Tea Craft: How is Tea Hand Picked?
May 17 , 2022
Accuracy of tea picking is just as important as the timing. The world’s finest teas are handpicked by experts who often tend to their own area of t...
Tea Craft: Where is Tea grown?
May 17 , 2022
Most tea producing countries are found in a tropical belt around the equator, the finest teas are found at altitudes between 4000 and 6000 ft [‘hig...
Tea Craft: The Tea Bush
May 17 , 2022
It all starts with an evergreen plant called Camellia Sinensis, which has 2 original subspecies, one from China and one from India. The plant will ...
The Right Type of Bag
May 17 , 2022
It was a happy accident when the customers of an American Thomas Sullivan, mistakenly started to brew the tea they received still in the sample bag...
Artisan Wicker Baskets
May 17 , 2022
Our superb hamper baskets are hand-crafted from willow by artisans in China. All the willow used to produce our basketware is coppiced from fast-gr...
The Merchant's Mark
May 05 , 2022
Soon after its creation The Company began to use a ‘balemark,’ which identified its products as they arrived in busy ports or were sold on the trad...
