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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
A.A. Milne
Rather without food for three days than tea for one.
Ancient Chinese Proverb
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.
Billy Connolly
If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Japanese Proverb
Where there's tea there's hope.
Arthur Pinero
There is no trouble so great or grave that it cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.
Bernard-Paul Heroux
Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?
Noel Coward
I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.
Lu Tung
Harry found the tea seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.
J.K. Rowling
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sydney Smith
Indeed, Madame, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea; I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched.
Jonathan Swift
Ecstasy is a glassful of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Aleksandr Pushkin
Bread and water can so easily be tea and toast.
Unknown

Our passion


At driftwood we love tea - its history, its growth, its production - but most importantly we love its taste. Every single loose leaf tea we stock we do so because we believe it tastes great. When selecting fresh products to stock we focus on the flavour and freshness over specific grades of loose leaf, wonderfully exotic names or amazingly obscure sources. We are confident that our 'flavour and freshness first' approach will be tasted and appreciated in each and every loose leaf tea that is found in our online tea shop.

About James


James Henderson Robe is the former Personal Chef to the Dutch Ambassador and a tea connoisseur - with over ten years experience tasting, sourcing and selecting fresh loose leaf tea for clients and friends around the world. James personally sources, selects and buys each and every loose leaf tea for our online shop by following the driftwood team's simple but passionate ideology - flavour and freshness first - which means driftwood only sells the freshest of products that we truly believe taste great.

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