Audio & Video Center
Welcome to the World Tea Audio & Video Center. World Tea News is eager to share educational and non-promotional video on tea topics with our subscribers. If you have a non-commercial video or audio program that you would like to share, email Editor/Publisher Dan Bolton.
Sudhir Prakash, chairman of Glenburn Tea Estate and Khongea Tea Estate in Assam, is a third-generation Darjeeling planter and influential member of India’s Tea Research Association. Click to download and listen to this 25-minute interview as he discusses the daunting challenges faced by growers during this time of transformation of India’s tea estates.
Rising temperature throughout the world's tea growing regions pose one of the greatest challenges to the tea industry. Dr. T. S. Barman of the Department of Plant Physiology and Breeding at the Tocklai Experimental Tea Research Station in Jorhat, Assam has spent his career studying plants and the past 27 years developing clonal tea. Click to listen as he describes his latest project breeding tea bushes that better tolerate drought.
Mehul Shah is the managing partner at Sree Sai Corporation in Coonoor, India a city of 50,000 people located at 6,000 feet in the foothills of the Nilgiri Mountains. He is an experienced exporter and commission agent trading tea produced in the southern regions for both the domestic and export market. He works in the modern computer-equipped Tea Community Auction Center established by the Coonoor Tea Trade Association. Click to download his 20 minute interview.
Anil Jhal is the superintendent of Sungma Tea Estate high in the mountainous northwest region of india known as Darjeeling. This organic garden, which produces black, green and oolong teas, sits roughly a mile high at 5200 feet. On the horizon are the Himalayas, the world's tallest mountains. Click to download and listen to this half hour interview.
As the hot summer months settle in, we turn our attention once again to iced tea. Around this time last year, Manish explained the many ways that you could make cold-brewed iced tea from home. This week, he introduces listeners to one of the most dramatic devices for that cold-brew on the market. Manish interviews Trudy Dickinson of Northwest Glass Designs about their exquisite brewer, and afterward, he and Tere Clark discuss their impressions.
Manish Shah and Tere Clark reflect on their findings at the World Tea Expo, and introduce you to some of the best new tea gadgets of 2011. For those who love loose leaf tea but need a better way to enjoy it on-the-go, this episode is for you - Manish interviews Bo Olson of The Tea Spot, a Boulder-based company bringing the best of earth-friendly, traveling tea products to the market.
We've gone from extravagance to efficiency in this episode, as Manish Shah and Tere Clark introduce another incredible iced tea maker. John Lown of Takeya Tea Company joins Manish at the World Tea Expo to tell the story and inspiration behind one of the most complete, well thought out iced tea makers we've ever seen. Don't miss your opportunity to bring one of these beauties home--Manish reveals the details in the final segment.
George Jage of the World Tea Expo returns this week to recap June's spectacular event. He and Manish look forward to World Tea East, premiering in six weeks' time in Philadelphia. In the third and final segment, Manish attempts to restore confidence with one of our listeners. Can he do it??
Martin Ekechukwu, CEO of Village Tea, was a guest tea expert on a recent Dr. Oz. He provided the TV show audience information about several different types of herbals and their health benefits.
