Yesterday we as a company said goodbye to Tony Carter, a member of the Bell Tea & Coffee Company board, for this occasion we presented him with a very special tea.
We asked our key suppliers in Africa to find the best tea that Kenya has to offer at this point in time and we had subsequently had a few kilos flown over to us.
Weru Tea is currently the best of all the Kenyan Tea factories. It won best overall quality producer
in Kenya in 2009. It is located 220 KMs from Nairobi in Meru South District and is one of the closest factories to Mount Kenya.
Tea was first grown in this region in 1972, and Weru is the most modern tea factory in the area, serving
9500 smallholder tea growers. Weru is committed to the Ethical Tea Partnership.
The tea has diamond brightness, with a vibrant copper-gold colour when milk is added. It is one of
the most full-bodied teas in Kenya, fervent on the palate, with rich and creamy biscuit notes. It would
be the best tea I have tasted of this type in the last 20 years, and one of the top 20 of all time.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
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