Facts about Tea!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Irish drink more tea per head than nay nation in the world.

Tea was accidentally invented in 2737 BC when Chinese Emperor Shen Nung spotted some tea leaves blew into a pot of boiling water and produced a pleasing aroma.

By 1800 England alone was consuming 24 million pounds per annum of tea of every type from white and green to oolong and black, all of it organically grown and hand-made, much of it fit for Emperors and kings. Most tea consumed in England between 1650 and 1850 was green and oolong - not black!

From 1608, when tea first appeared in Europe, in Holland, until around 1850, China, with rare and inconsequential exceptions, was the sole source of all the tea drunk in the Western World.

The English East India company held a monopoly on all China tea exports to the British Isles and Americas for two hundred years.

An average of three billion cups of tea are consumed daily worldwide