TF Tea Cup Championships 2021
Whittard English Breakfast vs Bird & Blend Great British Cuppa
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Not unlike a certain Footballing Tournament that is also going on at the moment, the Tea Fancier Tea Cup Championships 2021 is nearly at an end. In this second semi-final, Bird & Blend take on Whittard. Who will play against Teapigs in tomorrow’s final?
Whittard have been teamongering since 1886 whereas Bird & Blend have only been in the game since 2012. If this tea review was a film (and let’s face it, it’s only a matter of time before the Tea Fancier Tea Cup Championships gets turned into a Hollywood movie) then it would be the story of the plucky underdog taking on the establishment. Although I think in that cinematic scenario, the underdo always wins which isn’t necessarily going to be the case here.
Maybe the denouement of my imaginary tea movie will see Whittard and Bird & Blend joining together to make a Bird & Whittard super-tea-blend. Or maybe they’ll go into the ship-building business with Richard Gere or discover that children’s laughter is ten times more powerful than screams when it comes to generating electricity for Monstropolis.
My film analogies are falling to pieces around my ears, quite frankly.
Whittard and Bird & Blend may differ in how long they’ve been in the business, but they are both exceptionally good at what they do. You’re in a safe pair of hands with either of them. These teas are both wonderful examples of their genre.
In fact all of the teas that made it through to the semi finals are wonderful. If I were to encounter any of them on a cafe menu or in a hotel bedroom tea station, I would greet them like old friends.
However a winner must be chosen and, as difficult it was to make that decision (you have no idea how hard my life is), I have decided that Bird & Blend’s Great British Cuppa does have the edge on Whittard. B&B’s tea is such a satisfying, perfectly calibrated blend of Assam, Ceylon and Yunnun teas that even tea blending experts Whittard falter in its wake. Most importantly, the Great British Cuppa makes me very, very happy. And that, really, is what it’s all about.
Congratulations Bird & Blend! You are through to the final.
