Jackie – thanks for keeping me up to date!  No, I had not seen this news item though I have in the past spoken with Oscar of Suki Tea.  And yes, I agree they might need some help.  While Northern Ireland has a somewhat sheltered clime it is no way like hot ‘n humid Tanzania – I always import tough-guy teas for cold wet places – I would be putting in plants from Georgia or Turkey or Korea, where the bushes are used to winters with snow and ice and lack of sunshine.  With skill it can be done in the time – but most back yard tea enterprises fail because of basic mistakes.  Even Ray Fong in San Francisco who knows a thing or three about tea growing killed all but a handful of his nursery plants a year back by assuming that California tap water is the same as Chinese tap water.

Do they plan on selling it pure or blended?

This excites me greatly. And it would probably be the only thing that would ever put me within arms reach of Belfast.

That said, I think the only way to make it feasible would be to blend the tea, but I do hope they release a premium single estate offering as well.