Dilmah

There is a myth that ‘teabag tea’ – ie. dust and fannings – are bad. Many are the experts who reject teabags as being the worst of the crop. The…

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…

Here’s where it all starts, the two tender leaves and the bud. Picking tea by  hand, as we do in Sri Lanka, ensures that we use just these two leaves…

Having just seen Steve Knapp’s reply to my father’s interview with the New Zealand Herald, this comes as a belated but important response. Mr. Knapp trivialises my father’s argument by…

In my post on Fairtrade – the brand – there was a response to the Organisation’s criticism of Dilmah. You can find it  here. In this case, and countless others previously,…

Yeah right I hear you say – delicious, natural and good for you? Got to be sales talk. Read on for a moment, please. Sri Lanka was known for centuries…

Terry Durack, the Independent newspaper’s (UK) restaurant critic and gourmet wrote some years ago in his Food for Thought column: Coffee and tea measure our lives. As youngsters, most of…

Dilmah is a family business founded on a very simple philosophy: integrity. That dictates our approach to quality, freshness, ethics, the family values in our business. It extends also to…

The art in tea starts here, with the tender shoots at the extremes of the evergreen shrub, Camellia Sinensis. Flavour and natural antioxidants are concentrated in the two leaves and bud;…

For a really satisfying and healthy cup of tea, as important as high quality, garden fresh tea is the manner in which the tea is brewed. Tea – especially high…