Tea Grown in Scotland

Dream it.

It all begins with an idea. We chose the Cowal Peninsula in Argyll to grow this plantation. At Caladh soil acidity, rainfall and climate mimic conditions of high grown tea regions, famed for producing the worlds best teas.

Grow it.

There are two main considerations when it comes to tea. One is that through different processing of the same plant we can achieve black tea, white tea, Oolongs and Puer teas. Secondly that the taste of tea is largely influenced by the soil in which it is grown like wine, or whisky.
Glen Caladh Tea will be an organic single estate loose leaf black tea, no blending, no plastics, no pesticides, high antioxidant levels and a unique flavour profile.
The tea farm has a polytunnel nursery bringing on the younger tea plants and an outdoor plantation within a deer fence. Plants are moved outside so they can have the full brunt of Scotland. We feel it’s more authentic this way.
We selectively propagate tea from the plants that most like it here.

Taste it.

The tea leaf has the potential to offer flavours and characteristics that we don’t know it has unless we look for them. Specialty teas, even just loose leaf teas, withered and rolled with attention to the process rather than cut up and torn and consumed together with the unmentionable teabag particles. I was brought up on loose teas made by people who are careful to bring out the best in that leaf and I would like to promote that real taste of well made delicious tea back to the UK customer.
For us, camelia sinensis, a crop so influenced by it’s natural surroundings as to create a unique taste that celebrates it’s Scottish provenance is of huge appeal.

Our first tea …

After 3 years nurturing our tea crop it’s so wonderful to finally offer you tea! Small batches of the new Tea Scotland collaboration teas will be available initially whilst the plants grow to full maturity.

Our full tea harvest this summer is in two new Tea Scotland teas - The Gathering and a double roasted black tea still to be launched. These teas are some of the first Scottish grown teas ever made and ‘The Gathering’ sold out very quickly and if you missed it we look forward to releasing our future harvests annually in October.

‘The Gathering’ a black tea, sweet and seductive with notes of chocolate wood and honeysuckle.

We will tell you about our second tea soon!

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