All the tea in China is not quite enough, it seems.
Chinese tea companies are starting to buy their tea from the very place that has historically bought it from them -- England, one of Europe?s great tea-drinking nations.
The small island whose cuppa has been the national beverage for hundreds of years has shown, against the odds, that it?s capable of growing the crop it has imported from Asia -- and in commercial quantities.
?We will exceed 10 tons this year,? says Jonathon Jones, garden and commercial director of the Tregothnan Estate, which lists more than a dozen distributors in China and Japan among its clients.
Source: http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/english-tea-china-097297
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