Tea Tasting 6

The Soul of the Leaf

4 years ago Facts of Tea, Tea Gardens, Tea Tasting, Unbelievable Tea Experiences

For centuries the world has valued tea more than any other herb. Of course there is coffee, but the bean only shares a faint glimmer of the brilliance in tea. Many will contest that statement, but the indisputable truth remains that tea is uniquely blessed with the influence of Nature across every sense, and therefore […]

The simple thing about tea

7 years ago Dilmah, tea, Tea & Health, Tea Gardens, Tea Gastronomy, Tea Industry, Tea Tasting, Unbelievable Tea Experiences

After every session of the Dilmah School of Tea, we come to the realisation that it is always the simplest things that can go wrong when making tea. It is no different whether fine dining restaurant at $20 a pot or at home at 10 cents a bag – tea offers sublime pleasure that is […]

Natural. Magical. Uva 2011 Seasonal Flush.

8 years ago Dilmah, Images of Tea, tea, Tea Tasting, Unbelievable Tea Experiences

There is no beverage quite like tea. Brewed from the leaves of a herb first recorded as a medicine five thousand years ago, tea has since been celebrated in the most revered manner by poets, emperors, kings, and commoners. Tea is universally known as a healthy herb though not often as one that is […]

Tea & the problems of mankind

11 years ago Dilmah, Images of Tea, tea, Tea Tasting

For centuries, problems of mankind have been solved over a cup of tea. Whether they were problems between nations, between businesses, even in families between husbands & wives, tea has been the soothing balm that helped their solution. The simple act of pouring a cup of tea is, in itself, an ice-breaker, providing pleasurable anticipation […]

Is it CSR or just business as usual?

11 years ago Dilmah, Ethics, Images of Tea, Nothing Whatsoever to do with Tea, tea, Tea Tasting, Unbelievable Tea Experiences

The June 2008 issue of ‘The Director’ Magazine of the IoD, included a well researched feature on the subject of CSR. It was to me, an informative, yet bewildering overview of the subject. Informative because it is a comprehensive and well researched feature, bewildering because in many cases, the businesses that practice this ‘corporate social […]

Tea in the first sense

11 years ago tea, Tea Tasting

Fine Tea has so many parallels with fine wine, fine cigars and other indulgences. To experience tea in the most complete and satisfying manner, one has to start well before the taste. That is to experience tea in the first sense. Good tea, single origin, single region or single estate tea that is fresh and […]

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