Tregothnan – G7 Leaders Breakfast Tea
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This is a tea for leaders. And not just any leaders either. This is a tea specifically blended for the leaders of the G7 Summit held in Cornwall in June this year. These are the sorts of marketing opportunities you can capitalise on when you’re the single producer of UK-grown tea like Tregothnan.
The Tregothnan tea plantation is situated within the much larger estate of the Viscount Falmouth, and managed by his son, the Honourable Evelyn Boscawen. So it’s entirely possible that as a wealthy titled landowner he knows Boris Johnson personally. They both went to Eton for a start. Hon Bosc probably said something like “I say, old bean,” (because this is how posh people talk obvs). “Fancy popping some of our tea in the World Leader swag bags this summer?
(Not that I’m dissing G7 for wanting to provide a good bit of swag for their attendees. I love a bit of promotional merchandise myself. Eighteen months of working from home, and not getting to attend day-job-related conferences, has certainly depleted my stock of biros with company names up the side. I was worried I might actually have to buy my own pens and I haven’t done that since the 1990s.)
So what of this tea that was presented to the likes of Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel. Yoshihide Suga and Joe Biden? Is it nice? Well, yes it is. G7 Leaders Breakfast Tea is a blend of every type of tea produced Tregothnan and some Assam. There is a depth to this tea with some woody toasty notes playing alongside the classic tea base. I tried a side-by-side comparison of this tea and Tregothnan’s Classic blend and I reckon that G7 Leaders Breakfast Tea is the better brew.
I’m relieved to know that we’re providing nice tea to our visitors, given that putting the kettle on and making tea is fundamental to British hospitality. If Joe Biden had made his first presidential UK visit to my house rather than to the G7 summit, the first thing I’d have done would be to offer the bloke a cuppa.
Tregothnan G7 Leaders Breakfast is a tea that is amenable to a splash of milk. I’ve no doubt it would accommodated a spoon or two of sugar quite happily, should one need an extra boost to get through a day of talking about international coordination of economic policies.
So did the G7 leaders enjoy their tea? I hope so. It’s a very nice cup of tea, and running countries is probably thirsty work. When I host the next TF Summit (it’s only me and the cats attending but we have some pretty weighty matters to discuss), this is the tea that I will be serving.
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