After landing exclusive deals in Edinburgh, Paris and New York, the iconic London hotel is next on the list of high-end establishments to serve Scotland’s first home-grown tea, cultivated from the Perthshire plantation.
The Dorchester is now the only hotel in England to offer the brew and to mark the exciting partnership, Wee Tea Plantation owner Tam O’Braan has been working secretly alongside the hotel to cultivate a tea garden on its roof.
“The garden is in part our homage to the known edict of Sir Winston Churchill during World War Two to grow tea and other dietary staples in the UK as part of the Dig For Victory campaign,” he said. “While those wartime tea-growing efforts are known to have finished prematurely as the war ended, this tea garden will remain in situ and be viewable from many of the hotel’s rooms”.
In time, with support from Dunfermline-based Wee Tea Company, the aim is to help the hotel harvest and produce a very small amount of fresh green tea.
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