I am just back from a learning trip that, for a change, taught me about an important herbal infusion rather than about tea.  My 10 day trip took me up into the Cederberg Mountains in South Africa to find out more about rooibos, the red bush herbal that is becoming so popular in the US and Europe. 

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With snow and ice covering all of Britain this week, I’m not travelling anywhere so, instead, I thought this was the ideal time to catch up with tea shops and tea rooms around the country and find out how they fared during the festive Christmas period in terms of sales and customer choices. I asked a few of my tea friends if sales in

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 Last time, I wrote about three new tea companies in Bristol but didn’t have enough room to include a fourth called TART - named for the savoury and sweet tarts that are the speciality of the house.  Great name - short, memorable and to the point!  I had known for… read more...

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 I had to travel to Bristol a week ago and so took the opportunity of visiting some of the new tea stores and tea rooms that are attracting a good deal of attention there.  Bristol is a vibrant, lively town with a colourful mix of all different ages and types of people – perhaps a bit like a smaller version of London

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