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Oliphant and sunset over Galle
Jun 08 , 2022
Our Ceylon Signature blend is named after Sir Anthony Oliphant, Chief Justice of Ceylon in 1838, who allowed his estate to be planted with tea seed...
Köhler's Medicinal Plants
Jun 08 , 2022
The tea plant is well worth celebrating for its beauty as well as for its usefulness. It's a small evergreen plant with dark, pointy leaves with s...
Caffeine-Free
Jun 08 , 2022
Caffeine-free - it’s a key reason why the western world drinks infusions. But what is caffeine and why should we be caffeine-free sometimes instead...
10 Amazing Tea facts
Jun 08 , 2022
1) The global tea market value is more than $250,000,000,000 [a quarter of a trillion dollars!] 2) Tea was first drunk in China more than 5000 year...
James Taylor, the Father of Ceylon Tea
Jun 07 , 2022
James Taylor was a 17-year Scott when he left London in 1851, landing in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, and sent to work on a coffee estate near Kandy. Cof...
St Helena and Napolean’s Coffee
Jun 07 , 2022
Far out in the South Atlantic, 1700 miles north-east of Cape Town, lies the tiny Island of St Helena. Discovered by the Portuguese, it was a perfec...
Still dunking after all these years
Jun 07 , 2022
There has always been a good reason to dunk a biscuit. The Romans dunked their bis-coctum [twice-baked] biscuits in wine to make them edible. Later...
The Story of the French Press or Cafetiere
Jun 07 , 2022
A little like the tea bag, what came to be known as the French Press was probably invented by accident. Legend has it that an unnamed Frenchmen was...
