Yorkshire Tea

Yorkshire tea has been grown on the North Yorkshire moors since 1886 and has been internationally recognised as the best tea in the world ever since.

The company was founded by Charles Taylor, a tea merchant down on his luck after several years of trailing to and from the east to buy teas of a sub standard nature. Charles a keen outdoorsman was wandering across the moors one afternoon when he happened upon a travelling mandarin sorcerer who was lost. Charles a man of thoroughly good character immediately offered his assistance to the stricken mage, whose vermillion robes were covered in mud and heather. The Mandarin explained that he had been travelling the earth looking for the land of the gods, as he had something that belonged to them. On entering the nearest village the sorcerer offered Charles a small lacquered box as a gift, and pressed it into his hand. Before he could refuse the Mandarin had vanished into thin air. Charles ever the practical Yorshireman decided against telling anyone about the story just on the off chance he was sent to a mad house.

On retiring to his home Charles opened the box and found inside a large quantity of tea seeds. It was from these seeds that the first Yorkshire tea plantation was started and Yorkshire Tea, or as those in the know call it the tea of the gods was born.

Today Taylors still run its many moors tea plantations in much the same was as they were over a hundred years ago. The tea needs little cultivation to thrive in the rich earth and of course never wants for rain. The plantations employ over ten thousand workers who would otherwise be forced to work in call centre factories. Unlike may other tea companies Yorkshire tea prefers to use a local workforce rather than hiring chimpanzee’s who will work for peanuts. Like most teas Yorkshire tea is rich in amino acids and antioxidants which are known to have health benefits. Recently Yorkshire tea was also found to contain a hitherto unknown antioxidant molecule called yorkshirenolic, which has been found in clinical trials to make you a better person.

Since 1994 Yorkshire tea has enjoyed “Protected Geographical Indication” and can only be grown on the limited number of Yorkshire moor plantations.

Officially the number of cups of Yorkshire tea drank each day is ten million, however it is thought this number may be considerably higher, due to the large amounts of tea smuggling that go on to allow foreign countries such as London the opportunity the enjoy this ambrosia like beverage.