Cornish Tea: £180 for 125g of Tea
I posted about the Tregothnan tea plantation a few months ago and how this Cornish tea plantation in the UK is making a success of growing tea in these wet and windy isles.
Then I stumbled across a Guardian article in which the reporter went to get some single estate tea as a sample to try and was told that his minimum order of 125g was…£180!
Edward Eisler of Jing Tea said fo the tea after a blind taste test:
“Looking at it, from the colour and shape of the leaf and the flecks of green, it resembles darjeeling. It has good body and richness, but it doesn’t have clarity of presentation of flavour, which is the key thing I look for in whatever tea I’m buying. It’s also slightly burnt. I’d guess someone would use it for blending.”
Probably not worth the £180 then!
