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Thailand: Taking tea with Twinings
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Culture / Ceremony on December 24, 2011
The Nation, 10 Dec 2011
Thais enjoy little more than a strong coffee made the traditional way and are happy to sip their java juice at coffee shops, at home and in the office. Today though, many in Thai society are turning to English tea as their preferred tipple.
Tea is nothing new in this country, but lounging around a tea garden for a balmy afternoon tea over Earl Grey and cucumber sandwiches has never been a much-cultivated practice in Thailand unless you come from an aristocratic clan with a proper English education.
But Twinings of London, with its 300 years of expertise, believes the concept of English afternoon tea along the lines of its creator Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford, will go down well with Thais. So last week the leading English tea brand launched its first Twinings Tea Garden at The Nine Centre, Bangkok’s newest semi-outdoor lifestyle mall.
American Tea Masters Association Offers Certified Tea Sommelier Training In Spanish
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Culture / Ceremony on December 24, 2011
PR Newswire, 9 Dec 2011
The American Tea Masters Association proudly announces its special upcoming Certified Tea Sommelier Course – conducted entirely in Spanish. This course will be conducted January 21 - January 24, 2012 (inclusive), in San Diego, California. Diego Morlachetti, Certified Tea Master and Executive Director of the Escuela de Te inArgentina, will teach this course.
Review: Mighty Leaf Tea TeaTop Brewing Travel Mug
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Product News, Tea Reviews on December 24, 2011
Boarding Area, Dec 8, 2011
Mighty Leaf Tea is my most favorite tea, mostly because the flavors are incredible
and interesting. I’ve had them on my top ten list for years, but I never knew they did anything besides tea.
Turns out they also have a very clever travel mug specifically for tea users, which they were kind enough to send me to review. Putting tea in a normal travel mug isn’t that great—there’s no easy way to get the bag out, so the tea brews too long and ends up tasting bitter. If you do pull the bag out, there’s no easy place to put it and you end up making a mess.
The TeaTop Brew Travel Mugis the first travel mug specifically made for tea I’ve ever tried, and it is very cool.
16-Year-Old Creates Dress from 4,000 Tea Bags
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Culture / Ceremony on December 24, 2011
Oddity Central, 8 Dec 2011
The latest in bizarre dresses has arrived. After paper napkins, newspapers, and even condoms, we now have a dress made of tea bags. This one was made by a 16-year-old from Kuala Lumpur, and she used a whopping 4,000 tea bags to create her masterpiece. She won the top prize at the Green Awards 2011 held in Kuala Lumpur in October.
Holiday Tea Gift Ideas Part 2
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Product News, Tea Special Offers on December 12, 2011
Tea News Direct Exclusive
Still have some last minute gifts to buy in time for the holiday season? Don’t panic – here’s our Holiday Tea Gift Ideas part two!
- Did you miss part one? Click here for more Tea Holiday Gift Ideas
We’ve spent a long time trawling the internet looking for good tea gifts. Before we make our latest suggestions, we thought we’d give a special mention to MightyLeaf Tea, whose range of tea gifts just about blew us away! They have such an extensive range that they’ve compiled a list of their Top 20 Tea Gifts. If you can’t find something there…
Adagio Tea Loose Leaf Holiday Tea Collection
Every year, just in time for the holidays, Adagio offers loose flavored black teas with a seasonal theme. Sure to instill the spirit of the season and bring a welcome warmth to the growing cold, the Adagio Holiday Tea Collection make the perfect gift for your friends and loved ones, as well as a great indulgence to savor for yourself.
But these are only available for until the end of December, so make sure that you stock your stockings full!
Price: $9.00
The Tea Farm’s Tea Gift Basket
This Hawaiian style Tea Gift Basket is presented in a custom Lauhaula Basket (10″x10″x4″) and includes a maroon glass teapot, can of 4.5oz Mauna Loa macadamia dry roasted nuts, two small 0.5oz packs of macadamis nut with Maui Onion & Garlic flavor and Ghirardelli chocolate flavor, and of course The Tea Farm’s quality best selling tea:
(2 oz) Jasmine Dragon Pearl, (2 oz) Lichee Tea, (2 oz) White Peony and (2 oz) Oolong rose tea
Price: $40.00
Tea From Taiwan’s Splendor Tea Gift Set
Looking for the perfect gift for the tea lover on your list? Look no further! Here are two of Tea From Taiwan’s best-selling teas packed in an attractive gift box.
The Splendor Tea Pack has two canisters of their most popular tea - Tsuei Luan and Shi Zuo. They are representative teas of the top two tea regions of Taiwan – Ali Shan (Mount Ali) and Li Shan (Pear Mountain).
Price: $47.50
MightyLeaf Tea’s Holiday Tea Box
The Abaca Holiday Tea Box makes the perfect eco-friendly holiday gift. Handcrafted of tree-free Abaca plant fibers and cogon grass, our sustainable Abaca Holiday Tea Box is fastened with a whittled coconut-shell button.
Each box comes filled with 30 of Mighty Leaf’s whole leaf biodegradable tea pouches that includes the following seasonally festive blends: Organic Breakfast, Bombay Chai, Marrakesh Mint, Organic Hojicha Green Tea, Rainforest Mate and Ginger Twist.
Price: $24.95
Tea Gift Certificates
It’s definitely easier when you don’t have to choose gifts! If you’ve still not found anything to inspire you, why not let your loved one decide for themselves by getting a tea gift certificate. Here are some particularly good ones…
• Adagio Teas Gift Certificate
• Silver Leaf Tea Gift Certificate
• Tea From Taiwan Gift Certificate
We hope that you’ve taken some ideas for tea gifts from either Part One or Part Two of our Holiday Tea Gift Ideas. Please have a happy and safe holiday season 
The Tea Spot Launches ‘Dessert Tea Sampler’ in Time for Holidays
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News, Tea Product News on December 7, 2011
San Fransisco Chronicle, December 2011
The Tea Spot launches the ‘Dessert Tea Sampler‘, a perfect guilt-free tea to match a holiday sweet tooth, any time of day. Perfect as a holiday tea gift, the Dessert Tea Sampler has six gourmet loose leaf teas, spanning the gamut from loose black teas to oolong tea and caffeine-free herbal teas. The Dessert Tea Sampler combines chocolate, caramel, vanilla cream, citrus and bergamot, as well as almonds, coconut and hot spices.
This zero-cal, gluten-free, dessert tea collection includes 6 mini tea tins, filled with handcrafted blends that have notes of chocolate, vanilla, caramel, cinnamon, and coconut. The loose leaf teas in the Dessert Tea Sampler are three of The Tea Spot’s signature black teas, one oolong, and two herbals: Chocolate “O”, Creme Caramel, Earl of Grey, Red Rocks, Red Hot Chai, & Coconut Oolong. All six of the teas are handcrafted in Boulder, Colorado.
What Constitutes Sustainable Tea?
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News on December 7, 2011
Wall Street Journal, By Tom Wright, December 2011
A battle between Unilever and an Amsterdam-based non-governmental group over the rights of workers on tea plantations in India and Kenya shows the difficulties facing multinational companies that are trying to ensure their products are ethically produced.
But doing so is tricky. First, what does sustainability constitute exactly? Does it comprise basic worker rights and environmental protections? Or should it mean that workers on tea plantations in India and Kenya, poor countries, should be extended the same working conditions as most Europeans and Americans? And who makes sure these companies –often not owned by the multinationals but local suppliers–abide by the standards?
Durban Climate Change Conference: Redbush tea ‘could be victim of climate change’
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News on December 7, 2011
The Telegraph, by Aislinn Laing, December 2011
Redbush tea, the nutty-tasting antidote to the toxic excesses of the middle classes, could be the latest victim of climate change without drastic action, farmers and scientists have warned.
The tea plant, known locally by its Afrikaner name Rooibos, was first discovered by the San bushmen of South Africa and harvested for its medicinal qualities.
India: Tea Should Be Declared as the National Drink
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Culture / Ceremony on December 7, 2011
Tea got a new ambassador, when former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam said that the brew can be the official drink of India on Tuesday.
Even as the chief minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi declared tea as the State Drink, Kalam said that on the basis of the size of its consumers tea can be declared the national drink of India. Kalam was inaugurating the three-day World Tea Science Congress at Tocklai Experimental Station (TES), Jorhat, Assam.
Turkish Tea Aims High
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News on December 7, 2011
Today’s Zaman, 27 November 2011
The Turkish tea industry aims to make Turkish tea a world brand by 2023, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, and, to this end, a workshop held last week in Rize, a Turkish province known for its tea, brought representatives from the tea industry together with bureaucrats and officials from the government in a three-day brainstorming session on how to build a world brand.
The Turkish tea brand needs quite a bit of brainstorming because Turkey, in spite of being the fifth biggest producer of tea in the world with a production of around 200,000 tons of tea a year, exports only 1 percent of its total production. Turkey aims to produce at least 10 world brands by 2023, one of them being “Turkish tea.”
Minister of Customs and Trade Hayati Yazıcı, who was one of the speakers in the workshop, believes that Turkish tea, especially organic Turkish tea, has the potential to be developed into a world brand.
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